Chapter 9. The Project Object Model

Introduction

This chapter covers the central concept of Maven—the Project Object Model (POM). The POM is where a project’s identity and structure are declared, builds are configured, and projects are related to one another. The presence of a pom.xml file defines a Maven project.

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