What is the advantage of the 'src/main/java'' convention?

Question

I\'ve noticed that a lot of projects have the following structure:

• Project-A
  • bin
  • lib
  • src
    • main
      • java
        • Ro

Answer 1

Its a Maven convention.

Maven is based on Convention over configuration paradigm. Thats means: if you dont follow this convention you must configure where the sources are located. Thats the main benefit IMHO.