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1. Is there a variable in Maven that holds the current goal?    stackoverflow.com

In order to invoke the maven invoker plugin with the same goal that is currently running in my uber-pom, I need a way to pass the current goal into the invoker-plugin's ...

2. Combined site/deploy goal for Maven    stackoverflow.com

When running a Maven build on the CI server, I generate the site to publish the documentation and reports, and also deploy the artifact to the snapshot repository for use by ...

3. Is it possible to change maven default goal?    stackoverflow.com

Maven newbie question :) For 'war' packaging, war:war default goal run in 'package' build phase. Is it possible to disable war:war ? I'm using war:exploded instead. and is it possible to disable 'compile:compile' goal completely ? I ...

4. Maven, configure specific goal    stackoverflow.com

I want to configure "exploded" goal of the maven-war-plugin:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <goals>
       ...

5. Is there any maven goal that is similar to 'dist'?    stackoverflow.com

I'm working on a project that used ant. I had a target dist that would basically do jar first, and then install the application into a directory. This means, it would create ...

6. Where to place generated sources in order to make them visible for testCompile goal?    stackoverflow.com

maven-compiler-plugin:testCompile gets sources from ./src/test/java. How can I instruct it to use sources from ./target/generated-sources/test as well? Maybe they should be placed somewhere else to become visible for testCompile goal? ...

7. How to configure dependent maven goal?    stackoverflow.com

I want to configure maven in such a way that, whenever, the compile goal is executed some custom goal hostcopy from my custom plugin host-config should be triggered automatically. Is there ...

8. Are the release:prepare goal's steps sufficient?    stackoverflow.com

I have a question about the Maven Release plugin. According to the plugin documentation, one of the steps followed by the release:prepare goal is :

• Check that there are no uncommitted changes ...