Questions tagged [maven-3]

Apache Maven is a tool for project management and build automation. Maven relies on a pom.xml file that describes the project instead of defining a set of tasks, like Ant does.

A basic pom.xml looks like:

<project>
  <!-- model version is always 4.0.0 for Maven 2 and Maven 3 POMs -->
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

  <!-- A project is identified by its groupId, artifactId and version -->
  <groupId>com.mycompany.app</groupId>
  <artifactId>my-app</artifactId>
  <version>1.0</version>

  <!-- Dependencies -->
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>4.8.1</version>
      <!--
           The scope allows you to limit the usage of this dependency.
           In this case, this library will only be used for tests purposes.
      -->
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>

Many plugins exist, and offer more functionalities to the tool.

For non version-specific questions, please use maven, for the older maven versions 2.x or the legacy 1.x use maven-2 or maven-1, respectively.

If you see questions related to a specific Maven plugin, please also check whether the related plugin tag is present (i.e. maven-jar-plugin, maven-surefire-plugin).

Questions related to Maven plugin development should also have the maven-plugin, while questions related to Maven profiles should also have the maven-profiles tag and questions related to Maven archetypes should also have the maven-archetype tag.