What are the types of maven plugins

Question

Q. What are the types of maven plugins?

Answer 1

Build and Reporting Plugins.

Answer 2

Maven provides the following two types of Plugins -

Build plugins -They come into picture during the build and should be configured in the <build/> element of pom.xml

Reporting plugins -They get executed during the site generation and they should be configured in the <reporting/> element of the pom.xml