Phases

Instead of run lots of goals. For example, running a simple build clean:clean compiler:compile compiler:testCompile surefire:test which is verbose a issue to run (although can create alias in bash profile). Can use phases to do this for us.

From the table of phases mapped to plugins goals we can see that each phase has mapping to a goal from a plugin. We can instead run mvn test and this will run all the phases before inclusively and thus run all the goals.

package phase - packages up code into a jar or war, depending on what is set in pom

install phase - take the jar file created, and install into local maven repository or m2 folder

deploy phase - deploys to a remote maven repository (ie artifactory)

Site phase - create web site to show how to use created jar

site deploy phase - deploy to some server