What is “pom” packaging in maven?

Question

I was given a maven project to compile and get deployed on a tomcat server. I have never used maven before today, but I have been googling quite a bit. It seems like the top

Answer 1

Real life use case

At a Java-heavy company we had a python project that needed to go into a Nexus artifact repository. Python doesn't really have artifacts, so simply just wanted to .tar or .zip the python files and push. The repo already had maven integration, so we used pom designator with the maven assembly plugin to package the python project as a .zip and upload it.

The steps are outlined in this SO post