Introduction to Maven

Maven is a project management tool based on the notation of POM (Project Object Model).  It is one of the powerful and efficient build tool for java projects (There are other tolls like gradle and ant).

Is Maven developed in Java?

Yes, Maven is developed in Java.

What is a build tool?

Build tool reads the source code and generates a deployable artifact (jar, war etc.,).

Is Maven a build tool?

Yes, but it is more than a build tool. In addition to generation of artifacts, maven download the dependencies, generate documentation, run reports, tools portability (Many IDES like Eclipse, Netbeans, Intellij support maven) etc.,

Please go through the below post, to know ‘What exactly Maven is?’.

http://maven.apache.org/background/philosophy-of-maven.html

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