Mnemonics for maven - three funny phrases to quickly remember what maven default lifecycle is

If you, like myself, often have to switch between different technical stacks, you may know what it feels like not to be able to recall something you put so much energy in just a little bit earlier. Time has come to do something about it.

As you probably remember maven supports three built-in lifecycles: default, clean and site. The latter two are more or less straightforward, but default one is not so. And today, tired of putting it off, I, finally, did these phrases to memorize phases of the defautl lifecycle.

Here they are:

Very Curious: This Parrot's Voice's Indefinitely Deep
Vault Closed To Put Valuables In Dens
Vessel Carries Ten Pink Velvet Ingenious Dogs

First letter of each capitalized word should map on this: Validate > Compile > Test > Package > Verify > Install > Deploy.

Of course, you still have to remember about goals and executions, not to mention the other two lifecycles and their phases, but that's the start.

Good luck.

PS: For more information on maven please checkout these:

• maven official
• brief but informative explanation of maven phases and goals