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 archetype:generate

         go to folder then two things are there:

        1. src

        2. pom.xml

if we want package entire project mvn package

java -cp target/MavenTestApp-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

java -cp target/MavenTestApp-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar org.venkat.javabrains.App

MAVEN

• Archetype 
• Group ID
• Artifact ID
• Version
• Package

Eclipse Plugin:

mvn eclipse:eclipse