Building a pom project

There are many reasons why you may want to make a pom file available as an artifact. One reason is the aggregate project. An aggregate project must have the pom packaging type. Another reason could be a pom, which can be imported as a dependency. Whatever the reason, Maven provides support to build a pom project.

How to do it...

1. Open a simple pom project (simple-pom-project).
2. Observe the packaging type:

   <groupId>com.packt.cookbook</groupId>
       <artifactId>simple-pom-project</artifactId>
       <packaging>pom</packaging>
       <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
       <description>Simple pom project</description>

3. Build the project:

   mvn clean package
   

   Note that only the clean goal is run.

4. Run the following command:

       mvn clean install 
   

5. Observe the output:
   

How it works...

The following are the default bindings for the pom packaging type:

• package: site:attach-descriptor: This attaches a descriptor to the site report, if applicable...