title: Debug a maven plugin's execution in a maven web-project
body: <p>Is there any way to actually debug a maven plugin while it is in action. What I mean is that for example we have the maven-clean-plugin. So when this plugin executes it's action can we somehow debug and check inside the source code of maven-clean-plugin?</p>
  
  <p>Obviously we would have to associate the Java source for the plugin in eclipse but how can we set it for debugging?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong>: Changing the subject
  I'm sorry guys maybe I should have been more precise. Actually I have my web-app which is a maven project, which makes use of 3rd party maven plugins. Now when I do a <strong>mvn clean install</strong> I need to debug my 3rd party maven plugin. Now in my maven dependency I dont get a dependency to that plugin jar, which is quite normal. Any ideas?</p>