Important Maven Commands

• mvn -version: Finds the Maven version
• mvn compile: Compiles source files
• mvn test-compile: Compiles test files as well as source files
• mvn clean: Deletes target directory
• mvn test:  Runs unit tests
• mvn package: Creates a JAR for the project
• help:effective-settings: Debugs Maven settings
• help:effective-pom: Look at the complete pom after all inheritances from parent poms are resolved
• dependency:tree: Look sat all the dependencies and transitive dependencies
• dependency:sources: Downloads source code for all dependencies
• -debug: Debug flag; can be used with all the above commands