The Maven Plugin Metadata Model provides an API to play with the Metadat model.
'org.apache.maven.plugin-tools:maven-plugin-tools-model:2.4'
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugin-tools</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-plugin-tools-model</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency org="org.apache.maven.plugin-tools" name="maven-plugin-tools-model" rev="2.4"/>
"org.apache.maven.plugin-tools", "maven-plugin-tools-model", "2.4"