Top 21 Maven Interview Questions Answers for Java Developers

Hello guys, for a Java developer, Maven in one of the essential tool and its used to build your Java application. Since most of the Java projects used Maven for building, it is expected from a Java developer that he knows Maven and knows it well. That's why Maven questions are quite common on Java developer interviews but I have seen many Java programmers coming to these interview unprepared and not able to answer most of the questions on tools like Maven, Gradle or even git. When I asked one candidate why don't you prepare for Maven before your Java interviews, he said, I wasn't able to find any list of Maven questions. 

How to Create Java Project with Maven in Eclipse - Step by Step Guide

If you are not using Maven for managing dependency and creating a build for your Java project, then you are definitely missing something. Being an ardent fan of ANT, I started with Maven quite late, but once I started, I haven't looked back. Maven makes it so easy to add new open-source JAR files, building and testing your project that you wouldn't look back. By the way, like all the things starting is difficult. I spent countless hours will creating my first Java project using Maven and Eclipse, but those were days with older Eclipse IDE

How to Set Specific Java Version for Maven in Windows? Example Steps

Maven is a great build tool and most of the Java developer uses Maven to build their projects, but like any other tool, there are some intricacies which you need to know while using it. One of them is that Maven uses the Java version from the JAVA_HOME environment variable and not the PATH environment variable. If you have multiple JDK installed on your machine and getting an Unsupported major.minor version 51.0 or Unsupported major.minor version 52.0 error while building your project but have right Java version in PATH then you may need to check the JAVA_HOME and update it. If you don't have access to do it then you can still change JAVA_HOME using the set command in your local shell and run the Maven's mvn command to build the project