Example projects in this book use the Maven parent project serverless-cookbook-parent-aws-java that defines the dependency versions for our examples. The actual dependencies are defined within each example project to help you understand the dependencies needed for each use case. All dependency definitions are shown within comments in the parent POM for quick reference. 

Our parent project serverless-cookbook-parent-aws-java is also dependent on two open source projects: simple-starter-parent-java for the common Java dependencies, and simple-starter-build-tools for the common build file, such as the code style plugin definitions.