As developers, we understand that you don’t want to spend years reading documentation about your build tool. We get it. You just want to get to work. On the other hand, if you don’t take a little bit of time to understand what Maven can do and what it was designed for, there’s a good possibility you’ll be needlessly reinventing wheels. Take an hour or two and walk through Maven by Example. It’s a
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