Maven Project Terminology

| trunk | A location in the code repository bordering tags and branches | | project | A maven project. If there's a pom, it's a project | | pom | Project Object Model. The meta-information for project | | parent pom/project | A project of type 'pom' being referenced as a parent from another project | | [company pom | Company parent pom example for only Java projects] | The parent pom shared by all projects in a company | | module | A project which is handled together with other projects | | reactor project | A project with modules. Usually it is also the parent of each module because it manages project versions | | builder project | A project with modules that do not reference it as parent - it's a utility/hack for typically building snapshots together | | artifact | Output of a maven project build | | deployment unit | An artifact that can be deployed | |