Maven

Maven is a build automation tool developed using the Java programming language. It is primarily used for Java-based projects to manage the build process, including source code compilation, testing, packaging, and more. Maven utilizes the Project Object Model (POM), where the pom.xml file describes the project’s configuration and dependency management.

Features of Maven:

The Maven Build Automation tool provides a lot of features to make the development easy. Below we listed them

• Dependency Management: Maven simplifies the process of including third external libraries in our project and It can download automatically required libraries.
• Standardized Project Structure: It provides a standard project folder structure like source code in one package, testing code in one package, and others.
• Build Life cycle: The Maven different build phases to build the project.
• Plugins: It supports different plugins these are perform compilation, testing, packaging, deployment, documentation generation, and others.
• Project Object Model: Every maven Project have parent pom.xml file which can decided the configuration and dependency management of the maven project.
• Central Repository: Maven uses a central repository for downloading project dependencies, which simplifies dependency management.
• Build Profiles: The Maven build cycle handles different profiles like development, QA, production and others
• Reporting and Documentation: Maven can generate various types of project reports and documentation using plugins. These include Javadoc, code coverage reports, and site generation.
• IDE Integration: It support different IDEs like STS, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, and NetBeans.

Maven Build Life Cycle

In Maven Build life cycle there are different phases these phases are used for different purposes like test phase for complies tests, verify phases is used for tests and main source code and other.

• Validate: This phase is responsible for validates if the project structure is correct or not.
• Compile: It compiles the source code, converts the .java files to .class, and stores these classes in the target/classes folder.
• Test: It runs unit tests for the maven project
• Package: This phase is responsible for distribute complied code in the format of WAR, JAR and others.
• Integration test: It runs the integration tests for the maven project
• Verify: verify that the project is valid and meets the quality standards.
• Install: This phase is responsible for install packaged code on the system.
• Deploy: copies the packaged code to the remote repository for deployment then other developers can easily access this one.