In my job, we work with a maven multi-module project. While using maven, I have discovered several commands that are quite effective during development. In this post, and in the upcoming posts I am planning to share those.
So, today's post is regarding Maven command to build a specific project. For instance, we have a project, with three modules: A, B, and C, where C depends on B and B depends on A. And we are working with B at this moment. Using following command, we can run different maven phases on module B as follows.
mvn -pl :B clean install
We can include multiple projects as follows :A, :B.
What is more interesting is that the following command run maven command not only this module, but also the modules that depends on it.
mvn -pl :B clean install -amd
The above command in effect includes module C.
Using –am command, we can include all the dependencies as well, which is module A in this example.
Hope this helps!
adilakhter λ 