JAVA build system: Maven

Introduction

Apache Maven is a build-automation tool that provides an easy way to develop JAVA applications

• Generating a Maven project: mvn archetype:build > select options >

Archetypes

• Templates for projects that comes from the central Maven repository
• mvn archetype:generate lists the maven archetypes and asks the user to choose one
• The Quickstart archetype (1593) is the default template; it’s a sample Maven project
• groupId: a category for the project (similar to a root package) which identifies the subset of software pieces; used as a package name
• artifactId: the specific identifier of the project; a project name

pom.xml

• Stands for project object model
• Configures the whole build
• Check if the compiler has the correct version of JAVA