When you are using Maven, sometimes you need custom configuration in your Maven settings.xml file. However, if you are using multiple versions of Maven, or there are multiple settings.xml files existing at the same time, it can be hard to track down which settings file is actually used.
To help with this issue, there is the following command:
mvn help:effective-settings
It results in an XML displayed on the console. That XML contains the settings that are used by Maven.
