Maven parent POM (or super POM) is used to structure the project to avoid redundancies or duplicate configurations using inheritance between pom files.

Maven dependency scope is used to specify the visibility of a dependency. It provides six scopes i.e. compile, provided, runtime, test, system, and import.

Maven repositories are physical directories which contain packaged JAR files along with extra meta data about these jar files. This meta data is in form of POM files which have jar file project information, including what other external dependencies this JAR file has. These other external dependencies are downloaded transitively into your project and become […]

In Maven, dependency is another archive—JAR, ZIP, and so on—which your current project needs in order to compile, build, test, and/or to run. The dependencies are gathered in the pom.xml file, inside of a <dependencies> tag. When you run a build or execute a maven goal, these dependencies are resolved, and are then loaded from […]

POM (Project Object Model) is an XML file that contains information about the project and configuration details used by Maven to build the project i.e. sourcecode location, project dependencies etc. This file must be named as pom.xml and placed under root folder of project.

Maven settings.xml file contains configurations that are not specific to a project, but are global in nature. It also contains information that is not meant to be distributed (e.g. passwords).

Learn to use Maven Shade plugin to package a java project along with it’s dependencies into a fat jar or uber jar.

This is very strange problem but this is fact that when you create a maven web application using “-DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp” then no java source folder is created. Rather a resources folder is created. Files placed in resources folder are placed in your classpath when war file is created for your web application. To create java source […]