java - maven 上的 POM 是什么？

Question

我正在尝试按照 maven 的入门手册进行操作，但我收到此错误

c:\Ambiente\workspace>mvn archetype:generate \ -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archety
pes \ -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app \  -DartifactId=my-app -X
Apache Maven 3.1.0 (893ca28a1da9d5f51ac03827af98bb730128f9f2; 2013-06-27 23:15:32-0300)
Maven home: C:\Ambiente\apache-maven-3.1.0
Java version: 1.7.0_25, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_25\jre
Default locale: pt_BR, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: "windows 7", version: "6.1", arch: "x86", family: "windows"
[INFO] Error stacktraces are turned on.
[DEBUG] Reading global settings from C:\Ambiente\apache-maven-3.1.0\conf\settings.xml
[DEBUG] Reading user settings from C:\Users\t316360\.m2\settings.xml
[DEBUG] Using local repository at C:\Users\t316360\.m2\repository
[DEBUG] Using manager EnhancedLocalRepositoryManager with priority 10.0 for C:\Users\t3163
60\.m2\repository
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[DEBUG] Extension realms for project org.apache.maven:standalone-pom:pom:1: (none)
[DEBUG] Looking up lifecyle mappings for packaging pom from ClassRealm[plexus.core, parent
: null]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 0.078s
[INFO] Finished at: Mon Jul 22 17:23:03 BRT 2013
[INFO] Final Memory: 11M/247M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no POM in this d
irectory (c:\Ambiente\workspace). Please verify you invoked Maven from the correct directo
ry. -> [Help 1]
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.MissingProjectException: The goal you specified requires a proj
ect to execute but there is no POM in this directory (c:\Ambiente\workspace). Please verif
y you invoked Maven from the correct directory.

什么是 POM，我应该怎么做才能得到这个文件？

Answer 1

pom.xml 文件描述了如何构建项目。它可以被认为是 C/C++ 中的 Makefile 或 Python 中的 setup.py 的 Java 版本。您在关注具体示例吗？