Central to Maven is its lifecycle that provides a uniform interface for building and distributing projects. In this chapter, we will review the lifecycle and building blocks that make up the lifecycle.
Goals and Plug-ins
Build processes generating artifacts such as JAR or WAR files typically require several steps and tasks to be completed successfully in a well-defined order. Examples of such tasks include compiling source code, running unit tests, and packaging of the artifact. Maven uses the concept of goals to represent such granular tasks.
To better understand what a goal is, let’s look at ...
