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Q1.What is Maven ?
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Ans. Maven is a build automation tool used primarily for Java projects. Search

Q2.Difference between Maven and Ant ?

Ans. Ant is procedural, we need to provide information about what to do and when to do through code.

Maven is declarative, everything is de ned in the pom le.

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Q3. What is the best practice configuration usage for files - pom.xml or settings.xml ?
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Ans. The best practice guideline between settings.xml and pom.xml is that configurations in settings.xml
must be specific to the current user and that pom.xml configurations are specific to the project.
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Q4. How can I change the default location of the generated jar when I command "mvn
package"? Comments

Ans. By default, the location of the generated jar is in ${project.build.directory} or in your target directory.
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Q5. What is Maven's order of inheritance?
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Q6. What is a Mojo? apache ink Refere
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Ans. A mojo is a Maven plain Old Java Object. Each mojo is an executable goal in Maven, and a plugin is a apache jena Thread
distribution of one or more related mojos. Zip
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Q7. How do I determine which POM contains missing transitive dependency?
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Ans. run "mvn -X" apache sling

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Q8. How would you see the version of Maven ? apache velocity 1.8
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Ans. mvn --version apache xerces 1.6
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Q9. Where do we configure repositories in Maven ? 1.4
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Ans. Within settings.xml in either MAVEN_HOME or .M2 directory.
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Q10. What are different type of repositories in Maven ?
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Ans. Local and Remote. Eclipse

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Q11. How does Maven looks for a dependency or resource ? enum
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Ans. It refers to the settings.xml to look for the repositories to look for the resource. First It looks into the explainCode
configured local repository, then it looks into the configured Remote repositories. If the resource is still not
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found , it looks it within maven repository central i.e repo1.maven.org. If its still not found, it throws the
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exception saying "Unable to nd resource in repository central".
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Q12. What is maven repository central ? grails
gwt
Ans. Its the repository provided by Maven. In case your POM specify the dependencies and its not available hadoop
in the configured local and the remote repository. It then looks for the resource in Maven Central. Maven heap
provides most of the generic dependency resources at this remote location. hibernate
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Q13. What would you do if you have to add a jar to the project using Maven ?
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Ans. If its already there in Maven local repository, We can add that as a dependency in the project pom file
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Q14. Have you ever had problem getting your projects in eclipse refreshed after you made
java frameworks
changes in the Pom files ?
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java.awt
Ans. Yes, It happens many times but I would usually perform mvn eclipse:eclipse and this would resolve
the project refresh problems. java.beans
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Q15. What is the difference between compile and install ? java.lang
java.math
Ans. Compile compiles the source code of the project java.net
java.nio
whereas
java.rmi
java.security
Install installs the package into the local repository, for use as a dependency in other projects locally
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Q16. How can we see Dependencies for the project and where exactly they are defined ? java.util
java5
Ans. Using java6
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mvn dependency:tree java8
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Q18. What is a cyclic dependency ? javax.sound Except
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Q12.How can I change the default location of the generated jar when I command "mvn package"? 1.9
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Ans. By default, the location of the generated jar is in ${project.build.directory} or in your target directory. We can change this jvm
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Q13.How do I determine which POM contains missing transitive dependency? mockito
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Ans. run mvn -X mvc
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Q14.What would you do if you have to add a jar to the project using Maven 1.1
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Ans. If its already there in Maven local repository, We can add that as a dependency in the project pom le with its Group Id,
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Q18.How can we see Dependencies for the project and where exactly they are de ned ?
spring mvc

Ans. Using spring projects

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Q19.What are the bene ts of transitive depency in Maven ? string
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Ans. Transitive dependencies allows to avoid specifying the libraries that are required by the project which are speci ed in
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Q20.What is the difference between Maven, Ant and Jenkins ?
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Q21.Have you heard of Ban Duplicate Classes Maven enforcer plugin ? What is its use ? vraptor
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Ans. Yes , we have been using this plugin with our projects and its purpose is to warn and stop the Build if there are duplicates WCSSQLCon g
of the same package and class are being carried either directly or through transitive dependencies. the duplicate could be
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sure that there is only one copy thats being used at compile time and runtime and hence shouldnt later result in runtime
problems.
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Q23.What are different dependency scopes in Maven ?
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Q24.How do you resolve Maven Dependencies issue while upgrading dependencies versions ? Re: 1.7
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Q25.What is a Test Dependency Scope in Maven ?

Ans. This scope indicates that the dependency is not required for normal use of the application, and is only available for the
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Q26.What is the POM packaging in Maven ?

Ans. pom packaging is simply a speci cation that states the primary artifact is not a war or jar, but the pom.xml itself.

Q27.Difference between Maven Project and Module ? Send

Ans. Maven Module has a Parent whereas Project doesnt. when we add the parent section to the pom le, it adds the module
section to the parent project pom le. When we execute mvn compile / install, it basically checks that module section of the
parent to identify all the modules that needs to be compiled rst.

Q28.How to specify the sequence in which sub modules needs to be built ?

Ans. By specifying the modules in the same sequence in the parent pom.

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Q29. What is Maven's order of inheritance?

a. parent pom -> project pom -> settings -> CLI parameters
b. project pom -> parent pom -> settings -> CLI parameters
c. settings -> parent pom -> project pom -> CLI parameters
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Q33. Which of the following is not type of Maven Repository ? 1.0

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a. Local
b. Remote
c. Maven Central
d. Maven Local

Ans. Maven Local

Q34. What is the default location of local repository ?

a. ~/.m2/repo
b. ~/m2./home/repository
c. ~/m2./repository
d. ~/m2./home/repo

Ans. ~/m2./repository

Q35. Which of the following is not type of Maven Plugin ?

a. Build
b. Reporting
c. Remote
d. All are valid Maven Plugin types

Ans. Remote

Q36. Which of the following is not a dependency scope in Maven ?

a. Compile
b. Test
c. System
d. Export

Ans. Export

Q37. What is a project's fully qualified artifact name?

a. <groupId>:<artifactId>:<version>
b. <groupId>:<artifactId>
c. <artifactId>:<groupId>:<version>
d. <artifactId>:<version>

Ans. <groupId>:<artifactId>:<version>

Q38. Which of the following is dependency exclusion ?

a. A doesn't depend on C and then A marks C as excluded.

b. A Depends on B and B depends on C and then A can mark B as excluded. Java
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