Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi,
I am working on a java, j2ee project, which uses MVN repository..
and my project has a file called pom.xml which goes like this...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>com.octo.jtbox.samples</groupId>
<artifactId>jtbox-samples</artifactId>
<version>2-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<artifactId>TLNDashboard</artifactId>
<version>0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>JTBox :: TLNDashboard</name>
<description>
</description>
<inceptionYear>2007</inceptionYear>
<build>
<finalName>tlndashboard</finalName>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<wtpversion>1.5</wtpversion>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<connectors>
<connector implementation="org.mortbay.jetty.nio.SelectChannelConnector">
<port>9090</port>
</connector>
</connectors>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
<!--<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.cargo</groupId>
<artifactId>cargo-maven2-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.3</version>-->
<!-- Local WAR Deployement -->
<!--<configuration>
<configuration>
<type>existing</type>
<home>C:/HOMEWARE/crsdev/apps/apache-tomcat-5.5.20</home>
</configuration>
<container>
<containerId>tomcat5x</containerId>
<home>C:/HOMEWARE/crsdev/apps/apache-tomcat-5.5.20</home>
</container>
</configuration>-->
<!-- End of Local WAR Deployement -->
<!-- Remote WAR Deployement -->
<!--
<configuration>
<configuration>
<type>runtime</type>
<properties>
<cargo.remote.username>admin</cargo.remote.username>
<cargo.remote.password>secret</cargo.remote.password>
</properties>
</configuration>
<container>
<containerId>tomcat5x</containerId>
<type>remote</type>
</container>
</configuration>
-->
<!-- End of Remote WAR Deployement -->
<!--</plugin>-->
</plugins>
</build>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-struts</artifactId>
<version>2.0.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-hibernate3</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>jta</artifactId>
<groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-annotations</artifactId>
<version>3.2.0.ga</version>
<exclusions>
<!-- This dependency isn't publicly available -->
<exclusion>
<artifactId>jta</artifactId>
<groupId>javax.transaction</groupId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<!-- This one is -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
<artifactId>geronimo-jta_1.0.1B_spec</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>struts</groupId>
<artifactId>struts</artifactId>
<version>1.2.9</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
<version>1.0.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
<version>1.2.14</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
<version>1.2.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-beanutils</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-beanutils</artifactId>
<version>1.7.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>displaytag</groupId>
<artifactId>displaytag</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.ajaxtags</groupId>
<artifactId>ajaxtags</artifactId>
<version>1.2-beta3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>hsqldb</groupId>
<artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
<version>1.8.0.7</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- HTTPUnit dependencies (tomcat needed to compile JSPs) -->
<dependency>
<groupId>httpunit</groupId>
<artifactId>httpunit</artifactId>
<version>1.6.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>tomcat</groupId>
<artifactId>jasper-compiler</artifactId>
<version>5.5.15</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>tomcat</groupId>
<artifactId>jasper-runtime</artifactId>
<version>5.5.15</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>tomcat</groupId>
<artifactId>jasper-compiler-jdt</artifactId>
<version>5.5.15</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>xmlunit</groupId>
<artifactId>xmlunit</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- StrutsTestCase -->
<dependency>
<groupId>strutstestcase</groupId>
<artifactId>strutstestcase</artifactId>
<version>2.1.2-1.1-2.3</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>ojdbc</groupId>
<artifactId>ojdbc</artifactId>
<version>14</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>jasperreports</groupId>
<artifactId>jasperreports</artifactId>
<version>1.3.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>jfree</groupId>
<artifactId>jfreechart</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>jfree</groupId>
<artifactId>jcommon</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.enterprisedt</groupId>
<artifactId>edtFTPj</artifactId>
<version>1.5.3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-validator</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-validator</artifactId>
<version>1.2.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-digester</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-digester</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.mail</groupId>
<artifactId>mail</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.activation</groupId>
<artifactId>activation</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>

according to what I know, is it true that when i run mvn install... it gets all the jars mentioned in the pom.xml??

I am not very clear..Can anypne pls explain..

Thanks in advance!