Question

Inclusive quantifiers boundary range is defined as

Answer 1

Maven projects, dependencies, builds, artifacts: all of these are objects to be modeled and described. These objects are described by an XML file called a Project Object Model. The POM tells Maven what sort of project it is dealing with and how to modify default behavior to generate output from source. In the same way a Java web application has a 'web.xml' that describes, configures, and customizes the application, a Maven project is defined by the presence of a 'pom.xml'. It is a descriptive declaration of a project for Maven; it is the figurative “map” that Maven needs to understand what it is looking at when it builds your project.

You could also think of the 'pom.xml' as analogous to a 'Makefile' or an Ant 'build.xml'. When you are using GNU make to build something like MySQL, you’ll usually have a file named 'Makefile' that contains explicit instructions for building a binary from source. When you are using Apache Ant, you likely have a file named 'build.xml' that contains explicit instructions for cleaning, compiling, packaging, and deploying an application. make, Ant, and Maven are similar in that they rely on the presence of a commonly named file such as 'Makefile', 'build.xml', or 'pom.xml', but that is where the similarities end. If you look at a Maven 'pom.xml', the majority of the POM is going to deal with descriptions: Where is the source code? Where are the resources? What is the packaging? If you look at an Ant 'build.xml' file, you’ll see something entirely different. You’ll see explicit instructions for tasks such as compiling a set of Java classes. The Maven POM is declarative, and although you can certainly choose to include some procedural customizations via the Maven Ant plugin, for the most part you will not need to get into the gritty procedural details of your project’s build.