1. Build Tools
Manjyot Singh
Prakriti Suresh Singh

2. What is a build?

3. What is a build tool ?
Deployment
Resolve
Dependencies
Package
Compile

4. Build tools available
RAKE

5. Java Build Tools
XML Based
+
Flexibility
XML Based
+
dependency management
+
Reuse
Groovy DSL
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Hybrid of Ant and
Maven
2000 2004 2012

6. Maven – its kinda neat !
Automatic Downloads
Plug-Ins
Convention
Over
Configuration

7. Maven – Basic concepts

8. POM – The Almighty
project dependencies
plugins
goals
build profiles
project version
“Project Object Model”

9. Default build lifecycle

10. The “expected” structure

11. Maven - Installation
Make sure JDK 1.6 is installed.
Add “JAVA_HOME” variable as Windows environment variable.
Visit Maven official website, download the Maven zip file, for example :
apache-maven-3.2.2-bin.zip.
Add both M2(Path_till_maven_folder) and
M2_HOME(Path_till_maven_bin_directory) variables in the Windows environment.
Done, to verify it, run mvn --version in the command prompt.

12. Lets get to it then !

13. Questions