Maven Directory Structure
Maven has own standard for directory structure to create in a project. So we no need specify any directory on the project level for sources, resources, tests, plugins etc. And also we don't need to configure for creating directory structure on the pom.xml file it is internal functionality of maven.
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- src
- main
- java
- resources
- webapp
- test
- java
- resources
- target
Directories level on project created by Maven
Source Directory
-src This is src directory which contains two more such as
main and
test directories inside. The main directory is for your source code and test directory is for test code.
-main Under the main directory there are many more directories such as
java,
resources,
webapps etc.
-java The
java directory contains all java codes and packages
-resources The
resources directory contains other resources needed by your project. This could be property files used for internationalization of an application, or something else.
-webapp The
webapp directory contains your Java web application, if your project is a web application.
-test Under test directory contains two directories such as
java and
resources.
Target Directory
-target The target directory is created by Maven. It contains all the compiled classes, JAR files etc. produced by Maven. When executing the clean build phase, it is the target directory which is cleaned.