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)
