Getting started

Like the project in Chapter 2, Managing Processes in Java, this project is fairly simple, conceptually. The end goal is a command-line utility to perform various date and time calculations. However, while we're at it, it would be very nice if the actual date/time work were to be put in a reusable library, so that's what we'll do. This leaves us with two projects, which we'll set up, like last time, as a multi-module Maven project.

The parent POM will look something like this:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
    <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
      http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> 
      <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> 

      <artifactId>datecalc-master</artifactId> 
      <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> 
      <packaging>pom</packaging> 
      <modules...