From the course: Creating a Book Search Engine from Scratch Using Java and GitHub Copilot
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Setting up a Maven project
From the course: Creating a Book Search Engine from Scratch Using Java and GitHub Copilot
Setting up a Maven project
- [Instructor] All right, now that we have Maven and Java installed, let's create our project. I'm going to paste the command first and then I'm going to explain what it does. So I'm using the Maven command and the next part says archetype generate, which means we want to generate a new project based on an archetype, which is a template. And the template that we are providing is based on the Maven archetype quick start. So what this does is when we run this command, it sets up a basic project structure with a single Java file so that it's easier for us to get up and started running and focus on the code that we need to write. Now we need two more things, which is the group ID, which is generally the reverse domain name, in this case, I've used the initials from my name with com.h2. And this is the ID for the project, which is book-search, which is the project that we are working on. And we've also made the interactive mode false, which means we don't want this in an interactive mode…