Hi I am working with a java service team, that wants to know if they can run the verify step with mvn test, instead of bringing up the entire service in localhost

If you are using unit tests, you don't need to start the app, you can just test the things you need to in the unit test

ahh okay great information thank you @uglyog In this case, can we still use the cli’s pact-provider-verifier? Is seems like in that case we should use

mvn clean test -options

as below right?

You need to use one of the other. If you use the cli verifier, you need to have your app running. If you use unit tests, the tests will run the verification.