The small problem with the -pl approach AFAIR is that it does require you to remember the dependencies manually. Not super fun.

You can specify

-am ("also make") in addition to build the given module(s) and all their dependencies
-amd ("also make dependents") to build the given module(s) and all those modules which depend upon them

This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira