MuleSoft Maven Plugin?

What is Maven?

Maven is a project management tool that provides developers a complete build lifecycle framework. Development team can automate the project’s build infrastructure in almost no time as Maven uses a standard directory layout and a default build lifecycle.

MuleSoft Maven Plugin helps you to deploy and undeploy a MuleSoft application. It is compatible with the Enterprise Mule Runtime engine and Community Mule Kernel.
Mule Maven Plugin is capable of deploying applications automatically to on-premise, CloudHub, and Anypoint Runtime Fabric Manager.

Maven plugin supports three goals:

    Package: Generates jar or executable files for your Mule application.
            mvn package
    Deploy: It's used to automatically uploads, deploys and starts the application on the target system 

                (on-premise, CloudHub, Anypoint Runtime Fabric).
            mvn deploy -DmuleDeploy
    Undeploy: It automatically removes the application from the target system 

                (on-premise, CloudHub, Anypoint Runtime Fabric).
            mvn mule:undeploy

You can find Mule Maven Plugin in POM.xml by default whenever you create a Mule application, otherwise, you can define the plugin in POM.xml as shown below:

<plugin>

<groupId>org.mule.tools.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>mule-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.3.4</version>
</plugin>