Understanding pom.xml

It's time to explore pom.xml. This is what pom.xml looks like:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
 <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 <groupId>org.packt.selenium</groupId>
 <artifactId>FirstSelenium</artifactId>
 <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</project>

Group ID and Artifact ID that you added in the previous screens have appeared in the preceding file, inside the Project tag. In order to work with Selenium, we will need to add Selenium dependencies within the Project tag. Let's go ahead and add those from the Maven repository:

1. Go to the Maven repository (https://mvnrepository.com) and grab the dependency shown here:

      <!-- 
      https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.seleniumhq.selenium/
      selenium-java -->
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
          <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
          <version>3.13.0</version>
      </dependency>

1. Place this dependency inside a dependencies tag, as shown in the pom.xml file here:

      <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"    
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"   
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 
      http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
          <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
          <groupId>org.packt.selenium</groupId>
          <artifactId>FirstSelenium</artifactId>
          <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
          <dependencies> 
              <!-- 
      https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.seleniumhq.selenium/
      selenium-java -->
               <dependency>
                  <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
                  <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
                  <version>3.13.0</version>
              </dependency>
           </dependencies>
      </project>

1. Save the pom.xml. You will see a small activity in the bottom-right corner of Eclipse, stating that the project is being built.

The Maven Dependencies folder now gets populated with all of the downloaded JARs, as shown previously.