Deploying a MuleSoft application on-premises using the Mule Maven plugin

The Mule Maven plugin is an important Maven plugin for deploying, un-deploying, and packaging MuleSoft applications on-premises. Let’s discuss the Mule Maven plugin some more. The following plugin can be configured in POM.xml of your application with all the attributes that are required for deploying and running the application on-premises:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.mule.tools.maven</groupId>
  <artifactId>mule-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.8.6</version>
  <extensions>true</extensions>
  <configuration>
    <standaloneDeployment>
      <muleHome>${mule.home }</muleHome>
      <muleVersion>${app.runtime}</muleVersion>
    </standaloneDeployment>
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