Comprehensive course on using Maven for your projects

Students should be familiar with Development on the JVM

• Introduce Maven
• Explain the advantages of Maven
• Understand the structure of the POM
• Understand the build life-cycle
• Maven directory structures and how to modify them
• List maven properties and variables
• Explain Maven repositories
• Discuss different Maven project types (Java EE, Web Applications, Java SE etc)
• Understand dependency management and Transitive Dependencies
• Use Maven profiles
• Use Maven plugins
• Define projects using POM inheritance
• Multi-module projects
• Define projects using POM aggregation
• Create project sites using Maven
• Integrate Maven with your version control system
• Overview of Maven configuration
• Integrate Ant in Maven and Maven in Ant
• Overview of setting up a maven repository (Nexus, Artifactory)