Chapter 3. Maven Configuration

Maven maintains its configuration at three different levels: global, user, and project. This chapter discusses how to customize Maven configuration at all three levels for optimal use:

• The global-level configuration is maintained at MAVEN_HOME/conf/settings.xml
• The user-level configuration is maintained at USER_HOME/.m2/settings.xml
• The project-level configuration is maintained at PROJECT_HOME/pom.xml

  Note

  The settings.xml file is the God of all Maven configurations. The XML schema of the configuration elements defined in settings.xml is available at http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd. The following snippet shows a high-level outline of the settings.xml file:

  <settings>
    <localRepository/>
    <interactiveMode/>
    <usePluginRegistry/>
    <offline/>
    <pluginGroups/>
    <servers/>
    <mirrors/>
    <proxies/>
    <profiles/>
    <activeProfiles/>
  </settings>

As we proceed with this...