Last updated: August 20, 2017

pom.xml is the main element of our project. In file are defined all of the dependencies for example:

  • a way of building a project
  • testing
  • running a project
  • generating documentation
  • creating a release

After generating project pom.xml file looks as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.energy.billing.system</groupId>
    <artifactId>ebs</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

</project>

It looks very raw. Only groupId, artifactId, modelVersion, version. This information on this step is not very important for us. First, change that we will make will be adding JUnit library.

<dependency>
    <groupId>junit</groupId>
    <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
    <version>4.11</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

Now we can compile our project:

mvn compile
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]                                                                         
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building ebs 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.6:resources (default-resources) @ ebs ---
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (UTF-8 actually) to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] Copying 0 resource
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:compile (default-compile) @ ebs ---
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 0.646 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2017-03-12T16:16:46+01:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 9M/245M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

As we can see project build successfully. For now, we should look at three commands:

  • mvn – this command runs maven and proper pom.xml file
  • clean – delete target catalog and old files version
  • compile – runs java compiler

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