While building the Jakarta Turbine project, engineers found that managing the Ant build tool is hard. They needed a simple tool to build the projects with a clear definition that is easy to understand. Their attempt shaped Apache Maven, and the JARs can be shared across several projects in the central place.
More information on Maven can be found at https://maven.apache.org.
Apache Maven was created to support Java project and build management. Also, its simplified definition makes Java developers' lives easy while building and deploying Java projects.
At the time of writing this book, Apache Maven's latest version is 3.5.0, and it can be downloaded from their website: https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi.
Maven 3.3+ requires JDK 1.7 or above. So please make sure of your Java version when you use Maven 3.3.
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