Maven

Maven is a building tool.

Features of maven :

pom.xml  : an XML for project as well as a module . You can specify the build related information in pom.xml  and maven takes care of build , packaging etc.

Unit Testing : You can run your junit as part of the build , maven also generates report for the test result.

Repository : maven has its own repository with almost all major library jars available.
Local repository : its a directory in users PC which has the jars downloaded from the server repository.

Resources: maven automatically takes care of moving your xmls,property files appropriate places. You can add the xmls,property files to resources folder.

Set up Maven :
Repository :
You can set the location of maven repository in file setting.xml  at path MAVEN_HOME/conf