What are Maven goals and phases and what is their difference?

Question

What is the difference/relation between Maven goals and phases? How they are related to each other?

Answer 1

Maven working terminology having phases and goals.

Phase:Maven phase is a set of action which is associated with 2 or 3 goals

exmaple:- if you run mvn clean

this is the phase will execute the goal mvn clean:clean

Goal:Maven goal bounded with the phase

for reference http://books.sonatype.com/mvnref-book/reference/lifecycle-sect-structure.html