The Apache Maven is an essential tool for Java developers. It makes their life easy by allowing them to create Java project faster by using a standard directory structure. It also helps them to download project dependency automatically. Not only that, Maven also download transitive dependencies which relieve Java developers from the big headache of keep check of different versions of dependent libraries. For example, if your application is dependent on Spring framework but Spring is dependent on Log4j then you also need to download the correct version of Log4j JAR files for Spring MVC framework, Maven does this automatically for you. Maven also allows you to build projects, upload artifacts to the central or local nexus repository and deploy the release in your various test environments automatically.