Project Object Model or pom forms the elementary part of the working of Maven. While performing a Maven goal or a task, the pom file residing in the present directory is searched and referred to collect information on the project.
It is basically an xml file. It contains configuration details like plugins, goals, developers, dependencies, profiles, versions, and mailing lists.
For example, to add excel dependencies in Selenium, we need to add the dependencies pasted below.
pom