What is Maven?

Maven is an automation and management tool developed by Apache Software Foundation. It was initially released on 13 July 2004. In the Yiddish language, the meaning of Maven is “accumulator of knowledge”. Maven is a project management and comprehension tool that provides developers with a complete build lifecycle framework. The development team can automate the project’s build infrastructure in almost no time as Maven uses a standard directory layout and a default build life-cycle. Maven is a powerful project management tool that is based on POM (project object model).

What maven does?

Maven builds projects easily and can add jars and other dependencies of the project easily. It provides project information, helpful for a project while updating a central repository of JAR and other dependencies. Maven can easily integrate our project with the source control system.

Advantages of using Maven

Maven adds all the dependencies required for the project automatically by reading the pom file and can easily build the project to the jar, war, etc. as per the requirements. It makes it easy to start a project in different environments and one doesn’t need to handle the dependencies injection, builds, processing, etc., and adding a new dependency is very easy.