Apache Maven Cookbook

Creating a simple project with Maven

Now that we have set up Maven on our favorite operating system and verified that it works fine, it is time to create a simple Java project.

Maven makes it easy to bootstrap a new project by creating a bunch of files and folders following accepted conventions.

How to do it...

Let's start creating the first simple project using Maven, by performing the following steps:

1. Open a command prompt and change the directory to the folder in which you want to create your first Maven project.
2. Run the following command:

   mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.packt.cookbook -DartifactId=simple-project -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DinteractiveMode=false
   

   You can change the groupId and artifactId values in the preceding ...