MAVEN

MAVEN is an innovative software project management tool that provides new concept of a project object model (POM) file to manage project’s build, dependency and documentation. The most powerful feature is able to download the project dependency libraries automatically.

Steps to install MAVEN:-

• Download the  binary file form apache's site
• Unzip the zip file and add to the environment variable.
• To confirm installation use mvn -version on command prompt.

A simple maven project consists of following folder structure

•  project
• src
• main
• java (the source code)
• resources
• test
• java (the unit test code )
• resources ()
• pom.xml (the configuration file containing the information to build the project)

POM.xml stands for Project Object Model and it has the below structure

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>PROJECT_NAME_IN_PACKAGE_NAME_STYLE</groupId>
<artifactId>NAME_OF_JAR</artifactId>
<version>VERSION_OF_JAR</version>
</project>

MVN Install:-

• It is used to install the package to local repository so that it can be referenced by several projects

MVN package:-

•  It is used to build the project

mvn archetype:generate:-

To create a java project in java 
mvn archetype:generate
-DgroupId=com.anshul.ws
-DartifactId=MyWebService
-DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart
-DinteractiveMode=false

To support eclipse

mvn eclipse:eclipse -Dwtpversion=2.0

Life cycle of Maven:-
Like we have targets in case of Ant , we have phases in maven

Features of MAVEN:-

• Build process becomes very easy

To create a web-app using maven

1. Using command prompt go to the directory where project needs to be created
2. Type below
   mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=org.arsoft.projects.sood -DartifactId=arsood -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp -DinteractiveMode=false
3. To be able to access the project on eclipse go to the directory and run command
   mvn eclipse:eclipse -Dwtpversion=2.0

To create a Java project:

mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=org.arsoft.projects.sood -DartifactId=arsood -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DinteractiveMode=false

To create an EJB project:

mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.arsoft.projects -DartifactId=Common -DarchetypeArtifactId=ejb-javaee6 -DinteractiveMode=false

Understanding POM

1. It stands for Project Object Model and is the fundamental unit of work in maven.
2.