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The POM contains all the information about a project
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The file is stored with an XML extension.
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The POM file in our project is extendet by something called Super POM. To see the entire pom file, we can run a command from the command prompt:
mvn help:effective-pom
Minimum requirements:
<project>
<groupID>**com.lynda**</project>
<artifactId>**calculator**\</artifactId>
<version>**1.0**</version>
</project>
- Project coordinates
- Project license
- List of developers and contributors to the project
- List of project dependencies
- The name of this project
- The URL associated with this project
- Packaging type
- Scope of the element listed
- Even information about inheritance