What exactly is a Maven Snapshot and why do we need it?

Question

I am a bit confused about the meaning of a Maven Snapshot and why we build one?

Answer 1

usually in maven we have two types of builds 1)Snapshot builds 2)Release builds

1. snapshot builds:SNAPSHOT is the special version that indicate current deployment copy not like a regular version, maven checks the version for every build in the remote repository so the snapshot builds are nothing but development builds.

2. Release builds:Release means removing the SNAPSHOT at the version for the build, these are the regular build versions.