Running MVN Plugin from POM.xml VS Command-Line

I have tried running a Maven plugin from a directory which has my
standard java maven structure and pom.xml. From this directory, I run
the following command:



mvn

Here, I got wrong results.



However, when I bound this plugin to a phase in the pom.xml (e.g.
deploy) and ran the following:

mvn deploy



Then the plugin executed correctly. Why doesnt the plugin work from the
command line when invoked directly but only works in the PM.xml when
bound to a phase? Please let me know what Im doing wrong. Thanks.


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