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Maven Project Directory Structure

Learning Goals

Set up the basic directory structure for a Maven project.
Explain what each directory is used for.

Introduction

A Maven project has a standard directory structure for source code and configurations. We’ll only look at the minimal structure in this lesson to get started.

Maven Directory Structure

The following is a basic structure of a Maven project:

└── ~/developer/example-app
		├── pom.xml
		├── src
		│   ├── main
		│   │   ├── java
		│   │   └── resources
		│   └── test
		│       ├── java
		│       └── resources
		└── target

src/main/java: this is where the application source files are stored.
src/main/resources: the .properties files, xml config, certificates, and other config files are stored here.
src/test/java: the source code for tests are stored here.
src/test/resources: this is where test config files are stored.
/target: this stores the output files of the build process.

There are more directories that you may see in a standard directory. Check out the official documentation for a list of these directories.

Conclusion

We’ve learned to set up the directory structure for adding our source and config files in a Maven project. We’ll look at how to add dependencies in later lessons.

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