This avoid to put the pom.xml file into the source directory. Normally the pom file is in a parent (/parent) folder and it is not mixed with the java source code.
An other thing is: this will make import of the project more easy from a IDE.
The side effect is that the target folder where maven build artifacts will move from the <flatbuffers>/java/target to <flatbuffers>/target therefore the gitignore file has been updated in consequences.
Java developer are mostly comfortable with maven project structure. One one the main concept behind maven is convention. If you follow the maven project convention then your development team will get more effective as they now this project structure and can easily find the production code versus the test code.
In this pull request I have structured the java project around 2 main parts:
* the `flatbuffers` project. This project is the api / lib project and contains the test code structure + an example of code generation for testing. This avoid to commit generated code. Pre-configure JUnit for test driven development and make this project OSGi compliant.
* the `jmh` project. This project aims to provide a placeholder for micro-benchmarking. JMH is a 'de facto' standard for micro benchmarking you can find more details here: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/code-tools/jmh/
For now I didn't move the JavaTest class but it could be a next step with a migration to the JUnit framework.
The only impacts are the move of the class and the project structure => no code change.
Romain Gilles