What Maven 4 Brings: New POM Model, Flattened Consumer POMs, and Parallel Build Power
Maven 4 introduces a revamped POM model (4.1.0), separates build and consumer POMs to eliminate unnecessary metadata, adds explicit artifact types for classpath and module jars, renames modules to subprojects, adopts a tree‑based lifecycle for true parallel builds, and provides powerful configuration and upgrade tools, all aimed at modern Java projects.
