Getting Started: Compiling,Running, and Debugging - Java - page 31

Solution

Use Maven.

Discussion

Maven is a tool one level up from Ant. Although Ant is good for managing compilation,
Maven includes a sophisticated, distributed dependency management system that also gives
it rules for building application packages such as JAR, WAR, and EAR files and deploying
them to an array of different targets. Whereas Ant build files focus on the how , Maven files
focus on the what , specifying what you want done.

Maven is controlled by a file called pom.xml (for Project Object Model). A sample pom.xml
might look like this:

<project <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> <modelVersion> 4.0.0 </modelVersion> </modelVersion>

<groupId> <groupId> com.example </groupId> </groupId>

<artifactId> <artifactId> my-se-project </artifactId> </artifactId>

<version> <version> 1.0-SNAPSHOT </version> </version>

<packaging> <packaging> jar </packaging> </packaging>

<name> <name> my-se-project </name> </name>

<url> <url> http://com.example/ </url> </url>

<properties> <properties>

<project.build.sourceEncoding>

<project.build.sourceEncoding> UTF-8 </project.build.sourceEncoding> </project.build.sourceEncoding>

</properties>

<dependencies> <dependencies>

<dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId> <groupId> junit </groupId> </groupId>

<artifactId> <artifactId> junit </artifactId> </artifactId>

<version> <version> 4.8.1 </version> </version>

<scope> <scope> test </scope> </scope>

</dependency>
</dependencies>

</dependency>

</dependencies>
</project> </project>