diff --git a/maven-plugin-tools-generators/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/generator/PluginDescriptorGenerator.java b/maven-plugin-tools-generators/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/generator/PluginDescriptorGenerator.java
index 92e8515..f458eba 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-tools-generators/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/generator/PluginDescriptorGenerator.java
+++ b/maven-plugin-tools-generators/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/generator/PluginDescriptorGenerator.java
@@ -101,10 +101,10 @@ public class PluginDescriptorGenerator
 
             // write plugin-description.xml help-descriptor
             MavenProject mavenProject = request.getProject();
-            String pluginDescriptionFilePath =
+            String pluginHelpFilePath =
                 "META-INF/maven/" + mavenProject.getGroupId() + "/" + mavenProject.getArtifactId()
-                    + "/plugin-description.xml";
-            f = new File( request.getProject().getBuild().getOutputDirectory(), pluginDescriptionFilePath );
+                    + "/plugin-help.xml";
+            f = new File( request.getProject().getBuild().getOutputDirectory(), pluginHelpFilePath );
             writeDescriptor( f, request, true );
         }
         catch ( IOException e )
diff --git a/maven-plugin-tools-generators/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/generator/PluginHelpGenerator.java b/maven-plugin-tools-generators/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/generator/PluginHelpGenerator.java
index 27bda5e..1299cf8 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-tools-generators/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/generator/PluginHelpGenerator.java
+++ b/maven-plugin-tools-generators/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/generator/PluginHelpGenerator.java
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ public class PluginHelpGenerator
         {
             properties.put( "helpPackageName", "" );
         }
-        properties.put( "pluginDescriptionPath", propertiesFilePath + "/plugin-description.xml" );
+        properties.put( "pluginHelpPath", propertiesFilePath + "/plugin-help.xml" );
         // FIXME encoding !
 
         StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
diff --git a/maven-plugin-tools-generators/src/main/resources/help-class-source.vm b/maven-plugin-tools-generators/src/main/resources/help-class-source.vm
index 713ec9d..1e76d20 100644
--- a/maven-plugin-tools-generators/src/main/resources/help-class-source.vm
+++ b/maven-plugin-tools-generators/src/main/resources/help-class-source.vm
@@ -82,15 +82,15 @@ public class HelpMojo
      */
     private int indentSize;
 
-    // groupId/artifactId/plugin-description.xml
-    private String pluginDescriptionPath = "/${pluginDescriptionPath}";
+    // groupId/artifactId/plugin-help.xml
+    private String pluginHelpPath = "/${pluginHelpPath}";
 
     private Xpp3Dom build()
         throws MojoExecutionException
     {
         // olamy more than one pluginDescriptor in the classloader possible ?
-        getLog().debug( "load plugin-description.xml: " + pluginDescriptionPath );
-        InputStream is = getClass().getResourceAsStream( pluginDescriptionPath );
+        getLog().debug( "load plugin-help.xml: " + pluginHelpPath );
+        InputStream is = getClass().getResourceAsStream( pluginHelpPath );
         try
         {
             return Xpp3DomBuilder.build( is, "ISO-8859-1" );