maven

 Why Maven? Its not only build tool. also a Project management tool.--> managing your java projects' what does it mean? Creating a java project using by IDE, that's is IDE specific, If we wants general then we go for MAVEN. A Java project Structure. 1. Source Code 2. Test Code 3. project structure(directories, assets, resources) 4.Libraries/ dependencies. 5. Configuration--> how jar will work. 6. Task runner-->build, Test, run 7. Reporting. Maven is a open source Project and it's a Apache Project. . Maven provides project structure  and manages content. . Helps manage dependencies. . Configurable project object model. .maven tasks- goals and targets. CHARACTERISTICS: 1. Convention over Configuration. 2. Consistent 3. Configurable 4. IDE agnostic 5. IDE supported. 6. Declarative dependency management 7. plugin based architecture COMMAN PROBLEMS AND ACTIVITIES: Multiple jars Dependencies and versions Project structure Building, Publishing and deploying. cmd: mvn arch