4.0.0+ When children inherit from project's url, append path or not? »

4.0.0+ Declares to which version of project descriptor this POM conforms.

4.0.0+ The location of the parent project, if one exists. »

3.0.0+ A universally unique identifier for a project. »

3.0.0+ The identifier for this artifact that is unique within the group given by the group ID. »

4.0.0+ The current version of the artifact produced by this project.

4.0.0+ The type of artifact this project produces, for example jar war ear pom. »

3.0.0+ The full name of the project.

3.0.0+ A detailed description of the project, used by Maven whenever it needs to describe the project, such as on the web site. »

3.0.0+ The URL to the project's homepage. »

3.0.0+ The year of the project's inception, specified with 4 digits. »

3.0.0+ This element describes various attributes of the organization to which the project belongs. »

3.0.0+ This element describes all of the licenses for this project. »

3.0.0+ Describes the committers of a project.

3.0.0+ Describes the contributors to a project that are not yet committers.

3.0.0+ Contains information about a project's mailing lists.

4.0.0+ Describes the prerequisites in the build environment for this project.

4.0.0+ The modules (sometimes called subprojects) to build as a part of this project. »

4.0.0+ Specification for the SCM used by the project, such as CVS, Subversion, etc.

4.0.0+ The project's issue management system information.

4.0.0+ The project's continuous integration information.

4.0.0+ Distribution information for a project that enables deployment of the site and artifacts to remote web servers and repositories respectively.

4.0.0+ Properties that can be used throughout the POM as a substitution, and are used as filters in resources if enabled. »

4.0.0+ Default dependency information for projects that inherit from this one. »

3.0.0+ This element describes all of the dependencies associated with a project. »

4.0.0+ The lists of the remote repositories for discovering dependencies and extensions.

4.0.0+ The lists of the remote repositories for discovering plugins for builds and reports.

3.0.0+ Information required to build the project.

4.0.0+ Deprecated. »

4.0.0+ This element includes the specification of report plugins to use to generate the reports on the Maven-generated site. »

4.0.0+ A listing of project-local build profiles which will modify the build process when activated.