June 2018
Beginner
722 pages
18h 47m
English
As we already mentioned, the javac and java tools know where to find the standard libraries that come with the JDK installation. If your code uses other libraries, you need to tell IDE which libraries you need, so IDE can find them and set the classpath.
To accomplish that, IDE uses a dependency-managing tool. The most popular dependency-managing tools today are Maven and Gradle. Since Maven has been around longer than Gradle, all major IDEs have this tool, either built-in or integrated via a plug-in. A plug-in is a piece of software that can be added to an application (IDE, in this case) to extend its functionality.
Maven has an extensive online repository that stores practically all existing libraries ...
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