Maven default bindings

Source: http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-lifecycle.html#Built-in_Lifecycle_Bindings

Each phase of a build lifecycle in implemented by a set of goals. These goals are part of plugins.

Which goals handle which phases is specified by binding the goals(s) to phases. Following is the list of default such bindings.

Some phases have goals binded to them by default. And for the default lifecycle, these bindings depend on the packaging value. Here are some of the goal-to-build-phase bindings.

Clean Lifecycle Bindings

clean

clean:clean

Default Lifecycle Bindings - Packaging ejb / ejb3 / jar / par / rar / war

process-resources	resources:resources
compile	compiler:compile
process-test-resources	resources:testResources
test-compile	compiler:testCompile
test	surefire:test
package	ejb:ejb or ejb3:ejb3 or jar:jar or par:par or rar:rar or war:war
install	install:install
deploy	deploy:deploy

Default Lifecycle Bindings - Packaging ear

generate-resources	ear:generateApplicationXml
process-resources	resources:resources
package	ear:ear
install	install:install
deploy	deploy:deploy

Default Lifecycle Bindings - Packaging maven-plugin

generate-resources	plugin:descriptor
process-resources	resources:resources
compile	compiler:compile
process-test-resources	resources:testResources
test-compile	compiler:testCompile
test	surefire:test
package	jar:jar and plugin:addPluginArtifactMetadata
install	install:install and plugin:updateRegistry
deploy	deploy:deploy

Default Lifecycle Bindings - Packaging pom

package	site:attach-descriptor
install	install:install
deploy	deploy:deploy

Site Lifecycle Bindings

site	site:site
site-deploy	site:deploy