What is Maven Life Cycle?
Maven is an most powerful tool to build the artifacts of the java projects by usin the POM.XML file. A build lifecycle in Apache Maven is a prearranged set of goals and phases that are carried out in a particular order to construct and oversee a project. Following are the
1. Clean Lifecycle: In this cycle maven will all the dependence y which are previously stored in the local repository which have have been used for another project.
2. Default Lifecycle: This lifecycle had another sub cycles as mentioned below.
- validate: Validates the project configuration.
- compile: Compiles the source code into bytecode.
- test: Runs the tests for the project.
- package: Packages the compiled code and resources into an artifact (e.g., JAR, WAR).
- install: Installs the artifact in the local repository.
- deploy: Copies the artifact to a remote repository.
iThe above lifecycles can be achived by the simple different maven commands like mvn clean:clean or mvn compile, or you can run an entire lifecycle using a command like mvn clean install.
Apache Maven
Maven is a powerful project management tool that is based on POM (project object model). It is used for project build, dependency, and documentation. It simplifies the build process like ANT. But it is too much more advanced than ANT. In short terms we can tell maven is a tool that can be used for building and managing any Java-based project. maven makes the day-to-day work of Java developers easier and generally helps with the comprehension of any Java-based project.