One-stop of everything about a project
Project unique identification:
group
name (artifactId)
version
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.companyname.project-group</groupId>
<artifactId>project</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</project>
modelVersion - important & mandatory to ensure stability, changes very infrequently
packaging - specifies the format of artifact and also indicate a specific lifecycle as part of build process
name - display name
url - project site (used in generated documentation)
description - basic description (used in generated documentation)