Basic information about MAVEN
Maven: Maven is used to manage the dependencies and we can say this as build tool – which means it is used to setup everything which is required to run your java code independently. This can be applied to your entire java project. It generated source code, compiling code, packaging code to a jar etc. Maven provides pom.xml which is the core to any project. Create new variable in system through environment variable – MAVEN_HOME – PATH WHERE YOU STORED AND PATH OF THE BIN FOLDER PATH INSTALL MAVEN IN ECLIPSE IDE: Navigate to help – Eclipse Marketplace – Search Maven – Maven Integration for Eclipse – INSTALL. Once you installed then restart eclipse. Then right click on pom.xml and verify the option like Maven build, Maven clean, Maven install and Maven Test etc. Maven will download all the dependency jars in to local repository called .m2. M2 folder is basically inside Users – username – m2. All the jars will be placed in a folder