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In this post gives you all the useful maven commands used in maven applications.

I will daily use these maven commands in my project work. I hope these may help you in your daily project work.

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1. Create Maven Projects

Create a Java project

mvn archetype:generate
-DgroupId=org.yourcompany.project
-DartifactId=application

Create a web project

mvn archetype:generate
-DgroupId=org.yourcompany.project
-DartifactId=application
-DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp

Create archetype from an existing project

mvn archetype:create-from-project

2. Main phases

• clean — delete target directory
• validate — validate, if the project is correct
• compile — compile source code, classes stored in target/classes
• test — run tests
• package — take the compiled code and package it in its distributable format, e.g. JAR, WAR
• verify — run any checks to verify the package is valid and meets quality criteria
• install — install the package into the local repository
• • deploy — copies the final package to the remote repository

3. Maven phase commands(Project Build Commands)

clean project: will delete target directory

mvn clean

validate project: validate the project is correct and all necessary information is available

mvn validate

compile project: compile source code, classes stored in target/classes

mvn compile

test project: run tests using a suitable unit testing framework

mvn test

package project: take the compiled code and package it in its distributable format, such as a JAR /WAR

mvn package

verify project: run any checks to verify the package is valid and meets quality criteria

mvn verify

install project: install the package into the local repository, for use as a dependency in other projects locally

mvn install

deploy project: done in an integration or release environment, copies the final package to the remote repository for sharing with other developers and projects

mvn deploy

Skip running tests

Compiles the tests, but skips running them.

mvn install -DskipTests=true 

Skips compiling the tests and does not run them.

mvn install -Dmaven.test.skip=true 

4. Project Site Generation

Generate site without tests reports (tests are not executed):

mvn site:site

Generate site with unit tests reports:

mvn test site:site

Generate site with unit and integration tests reports:

mvn verify site:site

5. Code quality analysis

Analyze code quality with Sonar:

mvn clean install -DskipTests=true
mvn sonar:sonar

Read Sonar configuration guide.

6. Code coverage reporting

Notice:

It is much more feasible to generate code coverage reports directly from IDE than from Maven. Write test, write code, run coverage for separated test, and check that all important branches are covered.

Generate Clover reports for unit tests:

mvn clover2:setup test clover2:aggregate clover2:clover

Generate clover reports for unit and integration tests:

mvn clover2:setup verify clover2:aggregate clover2:clover

Read Clover configuration guide.

7. Dependency Management

Check dependencies for newer versions:

mvn versions:display-dependency-updates

Check plugins for newer versions:

mvn versions:display-plugin-updates

Check for newer versions defined as properties:

mvn versions:display-property-updates

Display project dependencies:

mvn dependency:tree

Analyze project dependencies:

mvn dependency:analyze

8. Getting Help

Display effective Maven settings:

mvn help:effective-settings

Display effective POM:

mvn help:effective-pom

Display all profiles (from settings.xml and POMs hierarchy):

mvn help:active-profiles

Display plugin goals (for m-compiler-p in the example below):

mvn compiler:help

Display plugin's goal description (for goal compile in m-compiler-p in the example below):

mvn compiler:help -Dgoal=compile -Ddetail

Help plugin — used to get relative information about a project or the system.

• mvn help:describe describes the attributes of a plugin
• mvn help:effective-pom displays the effective POM as an XML for the current build, with the active profiles factored in. Dependency plugin — provides the capability to manipulate artifacts.
• mvn dependency:analyze analyzes the dependencies of this project
• mvn dependency:tree prints a tree of dependencies Compiler plugin — compiles your java code. Set language level with the following configuration:

<plugin>
 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</
 artifactId>
 <version>3.6.1</version>
 <configuration>
 <source>1.8</source>
 <target>1.8</target>
 </configuration>
</plugin>

Learn maven here at Apache Maven Tutorial