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Maven Basics

Plan​

Learn the basics of Maven

Prerequisites​

Notes​

  • Dependency management and build tool
  • Maven Central is one of the central repositories - https://mvnrepository.com/
  • Maven gets all dependecies from Maven Central
  • Helps to maintain common structure across organizations
  • Provides templates
  • Flexibility in integrating with CI tools
  • Supports various plugins. Ex: TestNG, JUnit
  • Group Id should be unique across all the projects in Maven repository

Commands​

Check the version of Maven installed

  • mvn --version

Create a sample Maven quick start project

mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.tryonyourown.example -DartifactId=SampleMavenProject -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DinteractiveMode=false
  • Maven compiler plugin
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.3.2</version>
        <configuration>
          <source>10</source>
          <target>10</target>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>