pom.xml - is there any alternative for maven reactor plugin?

Question

is there any plugin which works like maven reactor plugin ? or is there any plugin available in Apache maven which builds an ear project through pom.xml and all of its dependent jar/war files automatically ?

Answer 1

Yes, reactor arguments are part of Maven core nowadays. See mvn -h (below reactor related options)

Options:
-am,--also-make                        If project list is specified, also
                                    build projects required by the
                                    list
-amd,--also-make-dependents            If project list is specified, also
                                    build projects that depend on
-h,--help                              Display help information
-pl,--projects <arg>                   Comma-delimited list of specified
                                    reactor projects to build instead
-rf,--resume-from <arg>                Resume reactor from specified
                                    project
                                    of all projects. A project can be
                                    specified by [groupId]:artifactId
                                    or by its relative path.