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
POM(Project Object Model) is nothing but the automation script for building the project,we can write the automation script in XML, the building script files are named diffrenetly in different Automation tools
like we call build.xml in ANT,pom.xml in MAVEN
MAVEN can packages jars,wars, ears and POM which new thing to all of us
if you want check WHAT IS POM.XML