A collection of maven commands

mvn.sh

# maven ignoring license
mvn install -Dlicense.skip=true -DskipTests
# maven fat jar
mvn assembly:assembly -DdescriptorId=jar-with-dependencies -DskipTests
# maven generate webapp project
mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp
# maven generate empty project
mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart
mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId={project-packaging} -DartifactId={project-name} -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DinteractiveMode=false

# maven run tests of a given class
mvn test -Dtest=classname


Maven plugins:
== Tomcat
```xml
<build>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
      <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>2.1</version>
      <configuration>
        <path>/</path>
      </configuration>
    </plugin>
  </plugins>
</build>
```
mvn clean install tomcat7:run
== Executable jar with dependencies:
```xml
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
          <archive>
            <manifest>
              <mainClass>[app.package.ClassName]</mainClass>
            </manifest>
          </archive>
          <descriptorRefs>
            <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
          </descriptorRefs>
        </configuration>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>make-assembly</id> <!-- this is used for inheritance merges -->
            <phase>package</phase> <!-- bind to the packaging phase -->
            <goals>
              <goal>single</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>      
    </plugins>
  </build>
```