Maven Quick Reference

I’ve been using Maven for quite some time, and always end up forgetting these very useful commands. Figured that posting them here would help us all out!

Dependency Plugin

mvn dependency:analyze
mvn dependency:tree

Help Plugin

mvn help:effective-pom

Release Plugin

mvn –batch-mode release:prepare release:perform -DpreparationGoals=clean -Darguments=”-Dmaven.test.skip=true”

Versions Plugin

mvn versions:display-dependency-updates
mvn versions:display-plugin-updates
mvn versions:display-property-updates
mvn -N versions:update-child-modules -DgenerateBackupPoms=false

Written on August 27, 2013