Hi Val,
Most of the time you just need
mvn clean install
sometimes if you can't be bothered with the test suite
mvn clean install -DskipTests
is also useful.
And if you just want to run tests you can do,
mvn clean test
Maven is a dependency management tool the actual compilation(much like
make is) is passed off to javac, and as such .m2 is where all the
OODT(and any other maven projects) dependencies are stored so it can
build it again and reuse the old dependencies if they've not changed as
thats quicker than downloading them all again.
The other goals are largely called by other processes or used for
building the old website etc, so you can ignore them.
OODT is also a multimodule project so if you call maven from the top
level you'll build all the modules, if you are only interested in a
specific module you can also call it from within that modules directory
and it will build that specific module.
Hope that helps.
Tom
On 06/11/14 15:15, Mallder, Valerie wrote:
Hello Everyone,
Where is the best place I should look to find out what each of the maven "goals" actually do? I am
new to 'maven' but very familiar with 'make'. I am used to using "make install" to build my
application and 'install' it into the place where my users will run it from. But, it looks like "mvn
install" does something complete different. I have noticed it is installing things in an .m2 folder in
my home directory. (What the heck is this .m2 folder and why do I need it?)
So I thought I would just ask the general question where do I go to find out
what all of the goals listed below actually do?
Thanks,
Val
validate,
initialize,
generate-sources,
process-sources,
generate-resources,
process-resources,
compile,
process-classes,
generate-test-sources,
process-test-sources,
generate-test-resources,
process-test-resources,
test-compile,
process-test-classes,
test,
prepare-package,
package,
pre-integration-test,
integration-test,
post-integration-test,
verify,
install,
deploy,
pre-site,
site,
post-site,
site-deploy,
pre-clean,
clean,
post-clean.
Valerie A. Mallder
New Horizons Deputy Mission System Engineer
The Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory
11100 Johns Hopkins Rd (MS 23-282), Laurel, MD 20723
240-228-7846 (Office) 410-504-2233 (Blackberry)
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