Maven tips 2 : Comman maven commands and their usage

Using a Custom POM or Custom Settings File

-f pom-conf.xml 

In this -f option is used to select specific pom.xml file if you have many pom file. 
If you dont use -f option then defaul value of pom.xml will be used to build .

Running in Offline Mode

 In case you dont have internet connection and dont want maven to try connecting to internet.
 -o --offline

Skipping Test 

-Dmaven.test.skip=true to skip the

Deploying the build on production or some artifactory

maven deploy

Other common useful commands:
 
clean install  -- clean the target directory and generate the output files.

install -- simply generate the files in the target directory. Does not clean the target directry only override the file if it part of the output.



Refer  maven options