* <code>mvn install</code>: the JAR archive is installed to the local repository, and made available to other Maven projects. This is particularly useful if you are compiling a beta version of BaseX, for which no archives exist in the repositories.
By adding the flag <code>-DskipTests</code> you can skip the JUnit tests and speed up packaging. You may as well use [[Developing with Eclipse|Eclipse and m2eclipse]] to compile the BaseX sources.
There are several alternatives for starting BaseX: