The features or advantages of Maven are as follows :
* Not required to manually add jars for the project. The updates to the project dependencies and transitive dependencies are carried out automatically by Maven.
* Maven maintains a uniform directory structure across the organization.
* Both the deployment and build activities are taken care by Maven.
* Maven is simple, easy to grasp, to set up and utilize in the projects as it is driven by the POM file.
* Rapidly expanding repository of Maven contains a large number of libraries that can be used for multiple projects at a time.
* Maven encourages the use of extensible code design.
