Building the Project

Maven offers commands for most use cases. These work by giving a set of goals, marking how far into its lifecycle it will go:

mvn [goal]

Several goals can be combined. It is recommended using the 'clean' goal when generating artifacts:

mvn clean [goal]

This will delete all the generated content before starting.

To find more about these goals check the Maven lifecycle.

Setting up the Environment

If the POM is set up correctly all the dependencies and plugins will be handled automatically by Maven.

Build

To generate the project artifacts (JAR/WAR):

mvn clean package

Changing the Artifact Name

By default the generated artifact will include the version number, looking something like:

project_id-version.jar

This can be changed by setting the final name build property:

<build>
   <finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
</build>

Install

To install in the local repository:

mvn clean install