Modular Programming in Java 9

A Maven refresher

This chapter assumes you are familiar with at least the basic concepts of Maven, but here is a quick refresher. Maven is, among other things, a project build tool. It is based on convention and provides a formal structure to organize your code, name your artifacts, and establish dependencies on other projects. This may sound very similar to what we've been doing with Java 9 modularity, but it isn't. Unlike the Java platform module system, Maven is concerned with building (or assembling) your artifacts, and not verifying compile time or runtime accuracy.

When you create a Maven artifact, you assign coordinates to it: the group name, the artifact name, and the version. You specify this in a file called pom.xml. This file also ...