Maven - robbiehume/CS-Notes GitHub Wiki
- Maven directory structure; Introduction to the Maven Standard Directory Layout
- Maven quick overview
- Building Java Projects with Maven
- Maven is a build tool that helps with building and documenting an Java project
- A build tool generates source code, documentation from the code, compiles the code, and packages the compiled code into JAR files
- JAR (Java ARchive) file is the Java zip file format
- A build tool also installs packaged code in repositories (local, server, or central)
- Maven is based on the POM (project object model)
- POM is an XML file that has all the info regarding project and config details
- It also includes the code and plugins used by Maven in a project
pom.xml: specifies and loads important project data, such as configuration, build profiles, and dependencies
- Problems Maven solves:
- Getting the right JAR files for each project, as there may be different versions of separate packages
- Prevents us from having to manually download dependencies from its official website
- Also helps create the right project structure which is essential for execution
- Helps with building and deploying the project to make it work
- Can go to www.mvnrepository.com to see list of dependencies and how to add them to your pom.xml