How to Create Your First Maven Java Project

Let's make an EASY TO UNDERSTAND MAVEN PROJECT for Java. If this is your FIRST MAVEN PROJECT, not to worry! We'll walk through the process of installing maven to running your JAR file on the command line and in IntelliJ. Maven can be complicated to learn, so the goal of this video is to provide a conceptual introduction to how you can start BUILDING YOUR OWN MAVEN PROJECTS without having to dive in head deep right away.

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VIDEO CHAPTERS:
0:00 What is Maven?
0:28 Making a Maven Project in IntelliJ
4:00 Installing Maven
5:49 Maven on the Command Line
8:17 Running Your JAR File
10:45 Why Should I Care?

[willtollefson]

Have you used maven before? What are your thoughts on it?

[malloryranae]

Great Maven video, Will! I use Maven frequently to build projects, and I’m glad you made a resource video covering it.

[DenaTollefson]

Awesome video tutorial on how to use Maven Project and build an application, Will. I am totally unfamiliar with the Apache Maven tool, this was a great walk through!

[yusufisawi]

Hello, im doing the same thing using jdk 21 but Intellij creates an empty pom.xml file, and if i use jdk 17 it creates it without any issue, how can i create maven projects using jdk21?