Maven for Eclipse chapter III-Creating and importing MAVEN projects

This chapter focuses on the structure of the Maven project, its architecture, which covers the required topics, and finally learns how to create a simple MAVEN project. This chapter mainly includes the following sections.

1. The structure of the Maven project
2. POM file (Project Object Model)

• • Maven's coordinates
  • The relationship of POM
  • Basic POM
  • Top-level POM

3. The build architecture of Maven projects

4. Other important concepts

• • Warehouse
  • Project Dependencies
  • Plugins and Tasks
  • Site generation and reporting

5. Create a Maven project

• • Creating with prototypes
  • Do not use prototypes to create
  • Retrieving a Maven project

6. Introduction of a Maven project

First section of the MAVEN project structure

MAVEN, with a convention greater than the configuration of the way, so that the project has a standard design, first of all to understand the Maven project in each directory or file meaning.

Folder/files	Description
Src/main/java	Store all Java Source code
Src/main/resources	Storage of application resource files, examples, audio, templates, etc.
Src/main/filters	Resource filter file for the project
Src/main/config	Files that hold configuration information
Src/main/scripts	To store the script file specified by the project
Src/test/java	Test source code to store Java
Src/test/resources	To store the resource file for testing
Src/filters	A filter file that holds the specified resources for testing
Src/it	Storage of integrated test files, mainly referred to as plugins
src/assembly	Files that store assembly plugins
Src/site	Storing documents related to Web pages
LICENSE.txt	The license information for the project is stored
NOTICE.txt	Contains the ownership of the project and the dependency information for the project
README.txt	Information that indicates the project needs to know
Target	All files generated by the compiled build are stored
Pom.xml	Pom file, the most core file

Maven for Eclipse chapter III-Creating and importing MAVEN projects