Maven Essentials

Hello Maven!

The easiest way to get started with a Maven project is to use the generate goal of the archetype plugin to generate a simple Maven project. Maven archetypes are discussed in detail in Chapter 3, Maven Archetypes, and plugins are covered in Chapter 4, Maven Plugins.

Let's start with a simple example:

$ mvn archetype:generate 
            -DgroupId=com.packt.samples  
            -DartifactId=com.packt.samples.archetype 
            -Dversion=1.0.0 
            -DinteractiveMode=false

This command will invoke the generate goal of the Maven archetype plugin to create a simple Java project. You will see that the following project structure is created with a sample POM file. The name of the root or the base directory is derived from the value of the artifactId parameter:

com.packt.samples.archetype ...