On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 3:53 PM Nils Breunese <n...@breun.nl> wrote: > Steve Hannah <st...@weblite.ca> wrote: > > > VSCode does let you execute phases, > > but the "phase" model doesn't work well when you are working on > > desktop application. You expect there to be an action to "run" the app > and > > a separate action to "build" the app. > > I don’t generally work on desktop application projects, but I don’t think > it should be fundamentally different from working on web server > applications. > > The Maven build lifecycle, like the name suggests, is aimed at building > projects. While a plugin goal might let you run something there is no > specific build lifecycle phase for that. I generally let my IDE do the > running, instead of involving Maven. > > But you can pass both a phase and a plugin goal to Maven to run something, > for instance like this: > > ./mvnw package spring-boot:run > > Or like this: > > ./mvnw verify exec:java > > I don’t know about VSCode, but an IDE should generally know when to build > a project (via Maven or otherwise) when you run it. Running the built > project can also be done without Maven, which is generally what I do when > not using an IDE: > > Build: ./mvnw verify > Run: java -jar target/my-app-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar > > > Neither of those are in the > > lifecycle. What I typically do is bind the "run" to the lifecycle so > that > > it will happen if I do `mvn verify`. > > Maven let’s you do that of course, but semantically that is a bit of a > hack, because the verify phase’s role is to ‘run any checks on results of > integration tests to ensure quality criteria are met’ [0]. > > By the way, Maven let’s you define a default goal [1], which can also > include phases and you could set to something like ‘verify exec:java’, so > that when you run Maven without specifying any specific phases or goals, > that will be executed. Maybe that would be helpful for you? > > Nils. > > [0]: > https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-lifecycle.html > [1] https://maven.apache.org/pom.html#Build_Element
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