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AndreaNobili
AndreaNobili

Reputation: 42957

What exactly do the Maven build... choice inside the Eclipse Run As?

I am absolutely new in Maven and I am studying it. I am using Eclipse

I have the following doubt: into Eclipse I have a Maven project.

If I select this project and I do right click on it and then I select the Run As option I have some choice. What exactly represent these choice? Are Maven tasks or what?

In particular to perform my project I have 2 possible choices:

  1. Maven build
  2. Maven build...

What exactly does these tasks? It seems to me that build the project and perform the related unit test. Is it true or am I missing something?

What is the difference between the previous choices. In the tutorial that I am following it is used the Maven build... and then set the clean package as goals. What exactly do this goal?

Tnx

Upvotes: 0

Views: 70

Answers (1)

atao
atao

Reputation: 845

The Developing with Eclipse and Maven - 4.2. Running Maven Builds doesn't really give any clue about the "Maven build" command.

So:

  • the "Maven build..." allows to define a new run configuration
  • the "Maven build" allows to choose between the existing user's run configurations or to create a new one if none exists.

About a user's run configuration with "clean package": have you ever used Maven? May be a good tutorial would be a first step... In the mean time - those goals will:

  • delete the target sub folder
  • rebuild the project in the new empty target sub folder
  • generate the archive jar-s as specified in the project pom

Upvotes: 1

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