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Stuart McCulloch commented on MNG-5518:
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According to http://maven.apache.org/developers/mojo-api-specification.html the 
javadoc-style @parameter had the following behaviour:

   "NOTE: If neither default-value nor expression are specified, the parameter 
can only be configured from the POM. The use of '${' and '}' is required to 
delimit actual expressions which may be evaluated"

Also in the Java5 annotation the 'expression' attribute was renamed to 
'property' and the need for '${' and '}' was dropped:

   https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPLUGIN-196

So there is some consistency here in that it is possible to define a parameter 
that cannot be overridden from the command-line, and an additional attribute is 
required ('expression'/'default-value' for the javadoc annotation, 'property' 
for the Java5 annotation) to enable the command-line support.
                
> @Parameter annotation requires property element to use command-line -D
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>
>                 Key: MNG-5518
>                 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5518
>             Project: Maven 2 & 3
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Plugin API
>    Affects Versions: 3.0.4, 3.1.0
>         Environment: Windows 7 Pro 64 bit, JDK 1.7.0_40
>            Reporter: Robert Patrick
>         Attachments: annotations.zip
>
>
> When writing a plugin using the Maven Java annotations, the @Parameter 
> annotation currently requires the property element to allow the goal to 
> receive configuration information from the command-line using 
> -DparamName=value even though the goal works fine without it when using a POM.

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