A very short Maven guide

If you don't use Maven at all or use it once a year you may find the document a useful maven commands reminder:

Snapshot compilation and snapshot package generation

• mvn compile - compilation of the snapshot package
• mvn package - create snapshot jar file
• mvn install - install in local repository shanpshot jar file
• mvn deploy - deploy to the remote repository snapshot jar file

Release compilation, generation

• mvn release:prepare prepare the project for a new version release
• mvn release:perform execute new version release generation

Generating tar.gz, tar.bz2 file with sources only

• mvn -DdescriptorId=src assembly:assembly