Getting started with maven

Question

I have experience in Ant how to get started with maven. Any advantage with maven over ant?

Answer 1

There is quite a big difference where ant forces you to create your own goals, you will get a set of default goals for maven, for example, clean, install, packageetc. without their scripting.

Maven encourages you to use a common directory structure for Java classes, resources, etc. If you do this, maven is only in the file xmlwhere you specify some project metadata, such as name, packageand, most importantly, dependencies, It provides a similar search for dependencies on what ivy is for ant.

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<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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.company</groupId>
    <artifactId>projectname</artifactId>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>
    <version>0.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>${project.artifactId}</name>
    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>log4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
            <version>1.2.16</version>
        </dependency>
    <!-- add more dependencies here ... -->
    </dependencies>


    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.6</source>
                    <target>1.6</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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