This Maven plugin simply converts more human-readable YAML (.yml, .yaml) files to Java's Properties (.properties) files.
This can be particularly useful when using a framework requiring .properties files but you want to benefit of the YAML syntax's advantages (more human-friendly, less repetitive, more concise, etc…).
The plugin supports encoding/charset configuration, both for input files reading and output files writing.
Which can be particularly useful when defining resources files for internationalization framework, which can contains special/encoded characters.