Description of problem: Ensure stability of the Plugin API across releases with animal-sniffer plug-in We want the Plug-in API to remain stable across releases. Some types of changes may be OK (adding methods, overloading methods, adding objects, and otehr changes which are backwards compatible). http://mojo.codehaus.org/animal-sniffer-maven-plugin/
per BZ triage (asantos, ccrouch, loleary, mfoley)