How to create Maven project in Eclipse for Java.

 Maven is a very nice build and configuration tool that helps us specify the jar as a GAV (group, artifact, version) in a xml file, that helps manage the project dependencies in a succinct manner.

Steps for creating maven project.

a.       Open Eclipse and got to File -> New -> Other

b.      Search with ‘Maven’ and select Maven Project.

*** If you are not able to locate MavenProject here, please install maven add on in eclipse.
Eclipse - Help - Install new software and link is http://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/releases/

c.       Un-check the ‘Use default Workspace location‘ and choose your workspace .

d.      Select the archetype, for now just select the ‘maven-aechetype-quickstart‘.

e.      Specify the Group Id & Artifact Id and click on Finish.

f.        Here is the pom.xml

g.       Right click on the pom.xml and go to Run As > Maven test.

h.      Here are the logs.

Thats all guys.

Download the project from : https://github.com/kasthurikranthikumar/EmptyMavenProject