Understanding the default project structure

Having imported the project in Eclipse, let's now go through the project structure in order to understand the important files and directories present in it:

File/directory in project structure	Brief description
pom.xml	For any Maven project, pom.xml is a must in order to let Maven know about the project dependencies. The pom.xml file is available directly under the project directory. If you take a look at pom.xml, you will get all the details about the project dependencies, repository information, and other important information. Also, in pom.xml for our project, you should be able to see the settings we provided while generating the project from the Maven archetype. You can change them here if you want and just update the project as we did earlier. Maven would then consider the updated changes and take care of the required things.
src/main/java	This directory will be used for placing the Java source code for the project. You can organize...