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Plugin Documentation

This report describes goals, parameters details, requirements and sample usage of this plugin.

Goals

Goals available for this plugin:

Goal Description
clean:clean Goal which cleans the build.

This attempts to clean a project's working directory of the files that were generated at build-time. By default, it discovers and deletes the directories configured in project.build.directory, project.build.outputDirectory, project.build.testOutputDirectory, and project.reporting.outputDirectory.

Files outside the default may also be included in the deletion by configuring the filesets tag.


See also: Fileset
clean:help Display help information on maven-clean-plugin.
Call mvn clean:help -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=<goal-name> to display parameter details.

System Requirements

The following specifies the minimum requirements to run this Maven plugin:

Maven 3.6.3
JDK 1.8

System Requirements History

The following specifies the minimum requirements to run this Maven plugin for historical versions:

Plugin Version Maven JDK
3.4.0 3.6.3 8
from 3.2.0 to 3.3.2 3.2.5 8
3.1.0 3.0 7
3.0.0 3.0 6
from 2.6 to 2.6.1 2.2.1 5
2.5 2.0.6 5
from 2.3 to 2.4.1 2.0.6 1.4
2.2 2.0 1.4
from 2.0-beta-1 to 2.1 - -

Usage

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

<project>
  ...
  <build>
    <!-- To define the plugin version in your parent POM -->
    <pluginManagement>
      <plugins>
        <plugin>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>3.4.0</version>
        </plugin>
        ...
      </plugins>
    </pluginManagement>
    <!-- To use the plugin goals in your POM or parent POM -->
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>

For more information, see "Guide to Configuring Plug-ins"