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Download libraries from Maven repos

Download libraries from Maven repos

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Download libraries from Maven repos

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- [Instructor] In older Java-based applications, to integrate an external library you would find the JAR file for the library, download it, copy it to your project and integrate it using your IDE, as I showed previously. In contemporary Java-based applications though, developers usually use Maven or Gradle, two frameworks that handle that download for you and can notify you when there are security issues or other potential upgrades. Now, if you want to use Maven from scratch, you would go to this page and you would copy and paste your dependency. And in fact, you can see there are icons here for doing that. But IntelliJ IDEA handles all that for you. I'm going to create a brand new project and I'm going to say this time that it's a Maven-based project. It's still going to be Java, but it'll add the Maven framework support. I'll use the same project STK as I have previously, and on this screen I'll call this MavenProject…

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