Usage, Sequence and Overrides of Excludes

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I'm using the JaCoCo Maven Plugin and was wondering how the excludes are managed with it.

For example:

Let's have a project POM (project_pom.xml), and a module POM (mod_pom.xml).

project_pom.xml
<configuration>
<excludes>
<exclude>A</exclude>
<exclude>B</exclude>
</excludes>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>exe_1</id>
<excludes>
<exclude>C</exclude>
<exclude>D</exclude>
</excludes>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>exe_2</id>
<excludes>
<exclude>E</exclude>
<exclude>F</exclude>
</excludes>
</execution>
</executions>

module_POM
<configuration>
<excludes>
<exclude>G</exclude>
<exclude>H</exclude>
</excludes>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>exe_1</id>
<excludes>
<exclude>J</exclude>
<exclude>K</exclude>
</excludes>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>exe_2</id>
<excludes>
<exclude>L</exclude>
<exclude>M</exclude>
</excludes>
</execution>
</executions>

1. In what order would the excludes be read?
2. Do they override each other?
3. What's the difference between a list of excludes (<excludes>A,B,C</excludes>) and several <exclude> entries?
3b. When do I have to use the list of excludes, and when do I have to use <exclude> entries?

[Anonymous]

And why can't I edit my post?