One of the most attractive feature of Apache Maven framework it to manage dependency JARs, but do you know, How Maven finds dependency JAR while building Java project? From where does it download all JAR files? How does Maven search for a particular dependency? In fact, these are some of the frequently asked questions by Maven beginners. Many Java programmer started using Maven as build tool, because of it's dependency management advantages. Since almost all Java project uses lot's of open source libraries, which means adding multiple JAR into classpath. In fact, this dependency on JAR file is one of the most time consuming part of setting up a Java project in Eclipse. Maven comes in picture, and allows you to just declare dependency in pom.xml file, rest will be taken care by Maven. In this article, we will take a closer look on How Maven manages dependencies and How does it finds respective JAR files during build process.
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