5 At work I have come across the requirement to generate some files based on the info in a `pom.xml`. Maven's [resource filtering](https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-resources-plugin/examples/filter.html) feature would be the first thing that comes to mind but unfortunately it's not powerful enough for my use case. I had to generate a file based on the dependencies that are referenced in the project.
7 A bit of googling found all kinds of outdated or unsupported maven plugins but nothing that would fit my use case directly. Finally I gave up and started to hack something together in groovy.
44 The template file can contain any syntax that the [GStringTemplate](https://docs.groovy-lang.org/latest/html/api/groovy/text/GStringTemplateEngine.html) supports.
46 IMHO this approach supports the best of both worlds: with only a little groovy scripting magic you get the maximum flexibility of a templating engine that has access to all the internals of your project.
