Maven Project Structure

Maven is a build tool and dependency manager built around a single principle: convention over configuration. Follow its standard layout and most things work with almost no setup. This lesson covers the layout, the POM, and dependency management.

Maven expects a fixed structure:

• src/main/java — production source code.
• src/main/resources — production resources.
• src/test/java — test source code.
• target/ — build output (generated).