Dependency

One of the tasks Maven excels at is handling dependencies for a given project. It can also handle transitive dependencies, which means if your project P depends on a jar A, which in turn depends on jar B, then Maven would download both the dependencies for you. In this case, jar A will be referred to as a direct dependency while jar B will be considered a transitive dependency for your project P. If jar B is in turn dependent on jar C, and jar C is in turn dependent on jar D, Maven will also download jars C and D when building your project P. Jars B, C, and D will collectively be called as transitive dependencies.