Goals are associated with different phases of the composite life cycle.

When you invoke a goal associated with a life cycle phase, Maven executes all goals mapped to all phases up to and including the goal you name. For example, if you execute the test goal, the compile, package, and deploy goals are executed before the test goal. The description of each goal in this section lists the actions performed when each goal is invoked.

To support the life cycle of building and deploying a SOA composite application, the following executable plug-in goals are provided.

• compile (scac)

• package (sar)

• deploy

• test (sca-test)

• undeploy

Before executing a goal, ensure that you have provided all of the necessary parameters for that goal in the POM file. See POM Files and Archetypes for a sample POM file.

The following example shows the groupId, artifactId, and version coordinates for Oracle SOA Suite plug-ins in the POM file.

<groupId>com.oracle.soa.plugin</groupId>
<artifactId>oracle-soa-plugin</artifactId>
<version>???</version>