Running Apache Maven
The syntax for running Maven is as follows:
mvn [options] [<goal(s)>] [<phase(s)>]
All available options are documented in the built-in help that you can access with
mvn -h
The typical invocation for building a Maven project uses a Maven life cycle phase. E.g.
mvn verify
The built-in lifecycles and their phases, in order, are:
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clean - pre-clean, clean, post-clean
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default - validate, initialize, generate-sources, process-sources, generate-resources, process-resources, compile, process-classes, generate-test-sources, process-test-sources, generate-test-resources, process-test-resources, test-compile, process-test-classes, test, prepare-package, package, pre-integration-test, integration-test, post-integration-test, verify, install, deploy
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site - pre-site, site, post-site, site-deploy
A fresh build of a project generating all packaged outputs and the documentation site and deploying it to a repository manager could be done with
mvn clean deploy site-deploy
Just creating the package and installing it in the local repository for re-use from other projects can be done with
mvn verify
This is the most common build invocation for a Maven project.
When not working with a project, and in some other use cases, you might want to invoke a specific task implemented by a part of Maven - this is called a goal of a plugin. E.g.:
mvn archetype:generate
or
mvn checkstyle:check
There are many different plugins available and they all implement different goals.
Further resources: