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Maven Essentials

You're reading from Maven Essentials Get started with the essentials of Apache Maven and get your build automation system up and running quickly

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783986767

Length 184 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Maven

Concepts

Build Automation

Authors (2):

Russell E Gold

Siriwardena

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Maven Essentials

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Apache Maven Quick Start FREE CHAPTER

2. Understanding the Project Object Model (POM)

3. Maven Archetypes

4. Maven Plugins

5. Build Lifecycles

6. Maven Assemblies

7. Best Practices

Index

Chapter 2. Understanding the Project Object Model (POM)

POM is at the heart of any Maven project. This chapter focuses on the core concepts and best practices related to POM in building a large-scale, multi-module Maven project.

As we proceed with this chapter, the following topics will be covered in detail:

The POM hierarchy, super POM, and parent POM
Extending and overriding POM files
Maven coordinates
Managing dependencies
Transitive dependencies
Dependency scopes and optional dependencies

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Authors (2)

Russell E Gold

Russell E Gold

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Siriwardena

Siriwardena

Prabath Siriwardena is the director of Security Architecture at WSO2 Inc., a company that produces a wide variety of open source software from data to screen. He is a member of OASIS Identity Metasystem Interoperability (IMI) TC, OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC, OASIS Security Services (SAML) TC, OASIS Identity in the Cloud TC, and OASIS Cloud Authorization (CloudAuthZ) TC. Prabath is also a member of PMC Apache Axis and has spoken at numerous international conferences, including OSCON, ApacheCon, WSO2Con, EIC, IDentity Next, and OSDC. He has more than 10 years of industry experience and has worked with many Fortune 100 companies.

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