Summary

In this chapter, we focused our discussion around Maven POM, and how to adhere to industry-wide accepted best practices to avoid maintenance nightmares. The key elements of a POM file, POM hierarchy and inheritance, managing dependencies, and related topics were covered here.

In the next chapter, we will have a look at Maven archetypes.

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