What is Maven: •
Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information.
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Maven is a high-level, intelligent project management, build and deployment tool provided by Apache's software foundation group.
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Apache Maven is a command line tool with some IDE integrations.
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Maven is dependency management tool
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Maven is a software tool for project management and build automation. While primarily used for Java programming, it can also be used to build and manage projects written in C#, Ruby, Scala, and other languages.
Objectives of Maven: Maven's primary goal is to allow a developer to comprehend the complete state of a development effort in the shortest period of time. In order to attain this goal there are several areas of concern that Maven attempts to deal with: • • • • •
Making the build process easy Providing a uniform building system Providing quality project information Provides guidelines related for best practices development Allowing transparent migration to new features
Maven Architecture: