Yesterday we did a training about the maven tool. One of the team members explained to us some topics including:

• lifecycles
• profiles and how to create one
  • slowTests for integration tests (this client only)
  • downloadJavadoc
  • downloadSources
• convention over configuration
• scopes of the dependencies (test, runtime, compile, provided)
• tricks about the tool:
  • order of the dependencies (especially junit, hamcrest)
• plugins and how to build one
• destination folders
  • target, classes, test-classes, etc

Note: this post was created a posteriori, with the original date