Simple Explanation of Maven and pom.xml

Understand Maven, the pom.xml, artifactId, groupId, version, parent, Effective pom, dependencies, plugins, and more.  In this video, we look at a pom.xml file generated by Spring Initializr, and a pom.xml file generated for a simple Java project in Eclipse.
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