Introduction to Maven and Building MemeforceHunt

What is Maven?

Maven is a tool which can manage modules of a software and knows how to compile and combine those to form a Java application or other applications which run on a Java virtual machine (such as Kotlin, Groovy, Scala and others).

You can recognize Maven by finding a pom.xml file. Usually the source code for the app is in a folder src/main/java, while test sources are in src/test/java. Maven follows strict conventions, but it can be configure to behave differently. Usually the conventions are very good — configuring often shows a flaw in the software. Thus, stick to the conventions as much as possible.