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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;">POM is short form of Project Object Model. Maven POM file in the project describe the resources of the project. This include all dependencies, directories of source code, test, plugin, goals etc. The POM file is named pom.xml. In earlier version of Maven (before 2.0) the name of this file was project.xml after version 2.0 it had changes to pom.xml. The pom file should be located into the root directory of the project.</div>
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<p>POM file also has inheritance concept means a project divided into sub-projects. So parent project has one POM file and each sub-project have own POM file with inheriting parent POM file into the parent project. So with this structure we can built a project in one step including all sub-projects or either we can build one sub-project separately.</p>
<p>Maven reads the pom.xml file, then executes the goal.</p>
<p>Whenever we are creating POM file in our project first we should decide the project group id (i.e. groupId) and its name (i.e. artifactId) and its version for versioning of project in the repository it help in identifying.<br />
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<h2><b>Here is a minimal POM file:</b></h2>
<pre class="highlight"><;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>;4.0.0<;/modelVersion>; 
 
 <;groupId>;com.dineshonjava<;/groupId>; 
 <;artifactId>;java-api-learner<;/artifactId>; 
 <;version>;1.0.0.RELEASE<;/version>; 
<;/project>; 
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<h2><b>XML elements of Maven POM file</b></h2>
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<li><b>project</b>-It is the root XML element of POM file.</li>
<li><b>modelVersion</b>-It is the sub element of project. It specifies the modelVersion. It should be set to 4.0.0.</li>
<li><b>groupId</b>-It is name of group or organization of project. It is the sub element of project element.</li>
<li><b>artifactId</b>&#8211; It is name of project (~artifact) what we are creating and it is the sub element of project element. An artifact is something that is either produced or used by a project.</li>
<li><b>version</b>-It specifies the version of the artifact under given group.</li>
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<p>The above groupId, artifactId and version elements would result in a JAR file being built and put into the local Maven repository at the following path:</p>
<p><i>MAVEN_REPO/com/dineshonjava/java-api-learner/1.0.0.RELEASE/java-api-learner-1.0.0.RELEASE.jar</i></p>
<p>As above listed elements are mandatory. All POM files require at least the project element and three mandatory fields: groupId, artifactId, version.</p>
<h2><b>Super POM</b></h2>
<p>All Maven POM files inherit from a super POM. If no super POM is specified, the POM file inherits from the base POM just like Object class in java.</p>
<pre class="highlight"><;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>;4.0.0<;/modelVersion>; 
 
 <;parent>; 
 <;groupId>;org.dineshonjava<;/groupId>; 
 <;artifactId>;parent-project<;/artifactId>; 
 <;version>;2.0<;/version>; 
 <;relativePath>;../parent-project<;/relativePath>; 
 <;/parent>; 
 
 
 <;artifactId>;parent-project<;/artifactId>; 
 ... 
<;/project>; 
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<p>An inheriting POM file may override settings from a super POM. Just specify new settings in the inheriting POM file</p>
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<p>An easy way to look at the default configurations of the super POM is by running the following command: <i><b>mvn help:effective-pom</b></i></p>
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