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Some of the benefits that you will achieve when turning to Maven projects include a well-
defined dependency structure, the conventions of a project build's best practices, and pro-
ject modular design, just to mention a few. Additionally, when you have an automated
build process, you can use continuous integration tools (such as Jenkins) to schedule auto-
mated tests and deployments of your applications.
All major IDEs have built-in Maven support. This includes the Eclipse Java EE Luna re-
lease.
So, let's create our first Maven project directly from Eclipse. Navigate to
File
|
New
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Oth-
er
|
Maven
|
Maven Project
. This is shown in the following screenshot:
Click on
Next
; you will be taken to the following intermediary screen:
