In this lesson, you will learn about build systems, Maven and Gradle.<\/p>\n
But before we discuss Maven and Gradle, let’s first talk about Dependency Management<\/p>\n
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According to the Maven documentation, dependency management is “a mechanism for centralizing dependency information”.<\/p>\n
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About Dependency<\/strong><\/p>\n First, let’s understand what dependency is. So when you are developing an application, you would probably need a number of libraries(normally jar files). It means that your application depends of these libraries. Hence the name dependency.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now you need a way to assemble all these libraries and manage them in a centralized fashion. This also means that these libraries would be made available at compile time or runtime when needed. This is what dependency management does.<\/p>\n So the process of dependency management involves locating these dependencies and adding them to the classpath.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Maven Dependency Management<\/strong><\/p>\n When you want to create a new project, you probably see that you can create Maven project. Now Maven is a popular dependency management tool. If you choose to create a Maven project, then you are simply saying that you would like to use Maven to manage dependencies.<\/p>\n