Java Persistence with Spring Data and Hibernate

Appendix A. Maven

Maven (https://maven.apache.org) can be regarded as a source-building environment. To better understand how Maven works, you need to understand the key points (principles) that stand behind Maven. From the very beginning of the Maven project, certain ground rules were created for software architecture. These rules aimed to simplify development with Maven and make it easier for developers to implement the build system.

One of the fundamental ideas of Maven is that the build system should be as simple as possible: software engineers should not spend a lot of time implementing the build system. It should be easy to start a new project from scratch and then to rapidly begin developing the software. This appendix describes the core ...