What is the difference in maven between dependency and plugin tags in pom xml?

Question

I\'m new to the maven tool, I have made a project with Spring and Hibernate and they are configured in pom.xml as plugins, but JUnit is tagged under dependency. My questio

Answer 1

One line answer - basic understanding

Plugin is a tool you use at the execution of your maven build

Dependency means kind of any library which you will use in your code