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Maven Directory Structure

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.

Dinesh Rajput

Dinesh Rajput is the chief editor of a website Dineshonjava, a technical blog dedicated to the Spring and Java technologies. It has a series of articles related to Java technologies. Dinesh has been a Spring enthusiast since 2008 and is a Pivotal Certified Spring Professional, an author of a book Spring 5 Design Pattern, and a blogger. He has more than 10 years of experience with different aspects of Spring and Java design and development. His core expertise lies in the latest version of Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Security, creating REST APIs, Microservice Architecture, Reactive Pattern, Spring AOP, Design Patterns, Struts, Hibernate, Web Services, Spring Batch, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Web Application Design and Architecture. He is currently working as a technology manager at a leading product and web development company. He worked as a developer and tech lead at the Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd and was the first developer in his previous company, Paytm. Dinesh is passionate about the latest Java technologies and loves to write technical blogs related to it. He is a very active member of the Java and Spring community on different forums. When it comes to the Spring Framework and Java, Dinesh tops the list!