Creating a empty maven project structure

Maven can itself create empty project structures when you want to start a new code base. To create an empty project structure, maven needs to be told the kind of project (simple servlet web application or JSF web application with Spring and hibernate or Web application with spring, hibernate and spring MVC etc…). Maven knows the details of the directory structure for each project type through an archetype. So a simple servlet web application will have its own archetype that details how the directory structure of a simple servlet web application looks like.

 

So to start with execute

 

mvn archetype:generate

 

Then Maven will ask you the kind of project you want to create by listing the archetype that it knows about and asking you to select the archetype. Then it wail ask other details about your project (group id, artifact id etc… ) and after all project details are provided, will create the empty project structure for you.

 

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