Subtask 1

Currently when anybody wants to use the wildfly-channel-maven-plugin to align dependencies versions in the pom.xml according to a manifest file, full configuration for the plugin needs to be provided in the maven command:

mvn org.wildfly:wildfly-channel-maven-plugin:upgrade \
  -DmanifestFile=path/to/eap8-manifest.yaml \
  -DignoreModules=org.jboss.eap:wildfly-legacy-ee-bom \
  -DignorePropertiesPrefixedWith=legacy. \
  -DignoreProperties=version.org.glassfish.jaxb.jaxb-runtime

The plugin now has an ability to read the configuration from the .wildfly-channel-maven-plugin file located in the root of the project. After this file is merged in the jboss-eap8 repository, the maven call can be simplified to this:

mvn org.wildfly:wildfly-channel-maven-plugin:upgrade \
  -DmanifestFile=path/to/eap8-manifest.yaml

...simplifying peoples lifes.

Subtask 2

Provide a script to perform the dependency alignment, like:

align-dependencies.sh [path/to/manifest.yaml]

Without manifest path use default manifest GAV?

Subtask 3

Update README file to describe that dependencies may need to be aligned and how to do it.