Maven Essentials - Master Java build automation

Explore how Maven serves as a Java project management tool, organizing source code, tests, dependencies, configuration, and build tasks into a standard project using the project object model.

Analyze how Maven, an Apache open source project, structures and manages Java projects. Explore its convention over configuration, dependency management, project object model, and plugin-based task runner.

download and install Apache Maven, ensure JDK is installed, place Maven in a Java folder, and add the bin directory to your path to run mvn -version from anywhere.

Learn how Maven fetches archetypes from the central remote repository, downloads templates, and stamps out a project, illustrating the client-server model and the need for an internet connection.

Explore how Maven dependency scopes control when jars are on the classpath, with examples like JUnit and JDBC drivers.

Explore how enterprise Maven uses an internal repository as a cache for external artifacts and internal libraries. Understand how access is restricted and artifacts are published to the company repo.

Explore Maven’s three lifecycles—default, clean, and site—and learn how mvn clean, site, and site deploy build, generate HTML reports, and deploy documentation online.

Demonstrates how to use the Maven Surefire Report plugin to generate test reports during site generation, configure it in the POM, and view Surefire results in the HTML reports.

Learn how Maven's default plugins align with the build lifecycles, and how to lock or omit these plugins in your pom.xml to control versions and behavior.

Discover how to build multi module maven projects with a root parent pom, create child modules, and link them via a parent reference and a modules list.

Learn how a parent pom centralizes dependencies, build settings, and properties for child modules, eliminating duplicates, and how Maven's reactor builds execute modules in the correct order across projects.