Mastering Apache Maven 3

Convention over configuration

Convention over configuration is one of the main design philosophies behind Apache Maven. Let's go through a few examples.

A complete Maven project can be created using the following code snippet in pom.xml file:

<project>
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>com.packt</groupId>
  <artifactId>sample-one</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.0</version>
</project>

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Note

The Maven POM file starts with the <project> element. ...