maven-clean-plugin

• https://maven.apache.org/plugins/
• https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/
• https://maven.apache.org/ref/current/maven-core/lifecycles.html#clean_Lifecycle

<plugin>
  <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.4.0</version>
</plugin>

• Deletes the target/ directory (where compiled classes and built JARs go)

Goals

clean (default)

mvn clean
mvn clean:clean # same