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 Introduction to the POM
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 Jason van Zyl
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 12 October 2005
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Introduction to the POM

  o You need a Project Object Model (POM)
  o Explain what is a POM is?
  o Explain that the POM is the fundamental unit of work in Maven
  o Explain the notion of the Super POM
  o Show what a minimal POM can look like

%{snippet|id=superpom|url=http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/components/trunk/maven-project/src/main/resources/org/apache/maven/project/pom-4.0.0.xml}

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<project>
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>com.mycompany.app</groupId>
  <artifactId>my-app</artifactId>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>3.8.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>

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