I have just committed a full rewrite of the Maven Cactus Plugin. As it is a rewrite, I have increased the version to 3.0 (it was 2.1-SNAPSHOT before). Note that the 3.0 version is still in development and is not released yet. I'm waiting for more feedback before releasing it.

The new version of the Cactus plugin now relies on the newest Cactus/Ant integration which has completely changed since version 2.0 of the Maven plugin. Thanks to the new Cactus/Ant, some features have also been added. The plugin now uses the new and Ant tasks (see the Cactus/Ant Integration page for more details).

Note that version 2.1-SNAPSHOT will never get released as 1/ a bug had been introduced and 2/ the direction is to use the Cactus/Ant integration which has been changed in Cactus CVS.

Please give it a try and report any issue on the Maven mailing lists/JIRA. You can find a read-made test application in here if you wish.