A Maven build life cycle comprises of certain phases. It determines the order in which the Maven goals need to be performed. If a particular phase is to be accomplished, then all the previous phases prior to that particular phase need to be run successfully in sequence.
Maven build life cycles are listed below as the followings:
Clean: Removes the artifact produced from the preceding build processes.
Default: Deployment and build process is taken care of.
Site: Project documentation is carried out in this cycle.
