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For too long, developers have worked on disorganized application projects, where every part seemed to have its own build system, and no common repository existed for information about the state of the project. Now there's help. The long-awaited official documentation to Maven is here.
Written by Maven creator Jason Van Zyl and his team at Sonatype, Maven: The Definitive Guide clearly explains how this tool can bring order to your software development projects. Maven is largely replacing Ant as the build tool of choice for large open source Java projects because, unlike Ant, Maven is also a project management tool that can run reports, generate a project website, and facilitate communication among members of a working team.
To use Maven, everything you need to know is in this guide. The first part demonstrates the tool's capabilities through the development, from ideation to deployment, of several sample applications -- a simple software development project, a simple web application, a multi-module project, and a multi-module enterprise project.
The second part offers a complete reference guide that includes:
The POM and Project Relationships
The Build Lifecycle
Plugins
Project website generation
Advanced site generation
Reporting
Properties
Build Profiles
The Maven Repository
Team Collaboration
Writing Plugins
IDEs such as Eclipse, IntelliJ, ands NetBeans
Using and creating assemblies
Developing with Maven Archetypes
Several sources for Maven have appeared online for some time, but nothing served as an introduction and comprehensive reference guide to this tool -- until now. Maven: The Definitive Guide is the ideal book to help you manage development projects for software, web applications, and enterprise applications. And it comes straight from the source.
Excellent Maven BookJuly 7, 2010 Colin Sulin I needed to learn Maven quickly, and this book was perfect for my needs. I spent a weekend working through the examples and came away with a good knowledge of Maven. Highly recommended.
An excellent Maven reference book.March 30, 2010 Sultan Mahmood(USA) Great examples with precise cases. Although a small chapter at the end but very informative for Nexus.
Excellent Reference BookMarch 29, 2010 ri music guy(Warwick, RI United States) I had used Maven several years back before Maven 2 and didn't like it at all. Then recently I was put on a project that uses Maven2 and I had to come up to speed really fast. I remember from my previous experience with Maven that the documentation was terrible. Since a few years had passed, I was happy to find more help online, but it was scattered all over the place. I finally got a pretty good grasp of Maven and actually started to like it. Then I found this book and it really does a great job at explaining the basics of Maven and then gets into the more complex topics. It is all in one book, in one place, written by the experts. I would recommend this book to anyone who needs to learn Maven quickly and then use the book as a reference as needed when you start doing more complex stuff (like writing Mojos, profiles, etc.).
Outstanding Maven GuideFebruary 15, 2010 Lars Tackmann(Copenhagen, Denmark) This isn't just some obscure Maven reference; It's a super practical guide from the actual people behind Maven with plenty of meat in it. The book covers numerous real world software delivery issues such as multi-module projects, web/enterprise projects, dependency management, automatic testing and documentation. Beside offering practical advice for real problems, the book also includes a well written coverage of the core maven technologies as well as numerous runnable examples. This, coupled with the fact that the book reads nicely, has definitely helped me get unstuck whenever I have found my Java projects to be in turmoil.
Prior to reading this book I must admit that I found Maven to be a tad confusion (to say the least) now I find myself actually understanding Maven and enjoying using its many advanced features to add extra project value.
Only maven book you needSeptember 11, 2009 Steven Koh(Singapore) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If not for the fair amount of errors in the source code, I would have given it 5 stars.
The concept and explanation from this book is concise and with clarity. Extremely easy to follow and be proficient in Maven.
