Maven - Lifecycle

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A Build Lifecycle is Made Up of Phases.

To call all phase, you only need to call the last build phase to be executed, deploy:

mvn deploy

If you call a build phase, it will execute not only that build phase, but also every build phase prior to the called build phase.

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Default

• clean: to remove the target directory
• validate
• compile: to compile your application sources
• test: to execute the tests. The surefire plugin executes the test.
• package: to archive your application
• integration-test - process and deploy the package if necessary into an environment where integration tests can be run
• verify - run any checks to verify the package is valid and meets quality criteria
• install: to install the generated artifact (JAR file by default) in the local repository.
• site: to generate the project documentation in target/site
• deploy: copies the final package to the remote repository for sharing with other developers and projects.

Others

• test-compile: to compile the tests but doesn't execute them
• idea:idea: to generate an IntelliJ IDEA descriptor for the project
• eclipse:eclipse: to generate a project file.

Documentation / Reference

• Lifecycle Reference