What is stable version for jasperreports-maven-plugin? - maven

Question

In my project, I am using Maven 3.0.4 and using JasperReports 5.1.0. To compile the JRXML file, using the jasperreports-maven-plugins. I have the jasperreports-maven-plugin with version 1.0-beta-2. Since it was beta version (1.0-beta-2) Can i know, what is stable version of jasperreports-maven-plugin available to be use?
Below the plugin used in my pom.xml file
<properties>
<jasperreports.version>5.1.0</jasperreports.version>
</properties>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>jasperreports-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0-beta-2</version>
<configuration>
<sourceDirectory>src/main/resources/reports</sourceDirectory>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/classes/reports</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<!-- Need to bind to the compile phase cuz the reports uses classes under target/classes. The default is the generate-resources phase. -->
<phase>compile</phase>
<goals>
<goal>compile-reports</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>net.sf.jasperreports</groupId>
<artifactId>jasperreports</artifactId>
<version>${jasperreports.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
<artifactId>groovy-all</artifactId>
<version>2.0.1</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>

Answer 1

Forget about the official maven plugin. I've been using alexnederlof's Jasper report maven plugin for a long time and works like a charm.
You can find more info at github:
The original jasperreports-maven-plugin from org.codehaus.mojo was a
bit slow. This plugin is 10x faster. I tested it with 52 reports which
took 48 seconds with the original plugin and only 4.7 seconds with
this plugin.
and in his blog:
The original plug-in is created in Java 4, works single-threaded and
the last time any committed to the repo was (at time of writing) 31st
of August, 2009. Not really an active project it seems.