Author: Ankesh K

  Welcome to linuxnix.com. We have already covered the basics about Maven. In this blog, we are going to know more about it. We will focus on the types of Maven repositories, deep into POM, how Maven works, etc. If you want to understand the basics of Maven, click here.   Maven Overview   Super POM The Super POM is the Maven’s default POM which is also called as Parent POM or Base POM. This is usually placed on the root directory of the project and there can be multiple subprojects which can have multiple POMs. These POMs from the subprojects are called Child POMs. An easy way to look at the default configurations of the super POM is by running the following command. mvn help:effective-pom   The minimum requirement for POM There are few minimal requirements for POM without which Maven cannot parse POM while building. Project root Model Version GroupId ArtifactId Version Maven uses the configuration from Super POM plus project configuration to execute the task. It runs sensible default behavior for projects, when the project is created it creates default structure. Developers are required only to place files in the respective location and no need to define any configuration in POM.xml. Below shows the default path: Source code: <project-location>/src/main/java Resources: <project-location>/src/main/resources Tests: <project-location>/src/test Complied byte code: <project-location>/target Distribution JAR: <project-location>/target/classes.   Maven Directory Structure The directory structure...