Maven skip compile

I want to use Maven to execute a certain plug-in that only needs the source code but I do not want Maven to compile anything (mostly because the project just doesn’t compile).

How do I tell Maven to skip the compile step and just launch its plug-in and then package the generated resources together in a nice JAR? (The procedure of the last step is already known to me.)

Additional Info:

So we tried a lot of things right now, e.g.:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.0</version>
    <configuration>
        <excludes>
            <exclude>**/*</exclude>
        </excludes>
        <source>1.7</source>
            <target>1.7</target>
    </configuration>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <phase>deploy</phase>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

Though when we do a mvn package we get this:

[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:3.0:compile (default-compile) @ project ---
[INFO] Changes detected - recompiling the module!
[INFO] Compiling ALOTOF source files to /home/myname/dir/dir/project/target/classes

message edited ofc.

Answer

<plugin>
   <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
   <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
   <executions>
     <execution>
       <id>default-compile</id>
       <phase>compile</phase>
       <goals>
          <goal>compile</goal>
       </goals>
       <configuration>
         <skipMain>true</skipMain> <--Skip
       </configuration>
     </execution>
   </executions>
</plugin>

Set this to ‘true’ to bypass compilation of main sources. Its use is NOT RECOMMENDED, but quite convenient on occasion. User property is: maven.main.skip.

mvn package -Dmaven.main.skip

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