How to use Maven in my Java Project and Why?

Question

I am trying to figure out the use of Maven and I got many articles describing its features and uses. But I am just not able to understand the actual use of Maven from produc

Answer 1

Where does Maven come into picture? I have used Ant and I understand Ants benefit of a standardized build process. But why do we need an advanced Ant in form of Maven?

• Maven introduced "convention over configuration" this helps if some colleagues write bigger ant scipts than code. plus dependency management, the only trouble is to convert monolithic projects with many artifacts.

In any case, I need to use it, so where do I get started - basic flow, some good tutorials?

• I found these tutorials
• And Maven: The Definitive Guide

helpful.