In many projects, Apache Maven is used and does some stuff - who knows what? In this session, we will pack the best practices from over 10 years of projects into a pom.xml. And you will know what it does and why it's there. Using practical examples, we will look at how to:

* solve problems in the build

* make the build reproducible

* find security issues in the code

* find security issues in the build

* make the legal department happy

* make the build faster

* reduce the cost of the build

* emit less CO2

We can do all of this without commercial or additional products - only with Maven standard plugins.