Introducing Maven

Introduction

Introducing Maven provides a concise introduction to Maven, the de facto standard for building, managing, and automating Java and JEE-based projects in enterprises throughout the world. The book starts by explaining the fundamental concepts of Maven and showing you how to set up and test Maven on your local machine. It then delves deeply into concepts such as dependency management, life cycle phases, plug-ins, and goals. It also discusses project structure conventions, jump-starting project creation using archetypes, and documentation and report generation. Finally, it concludes with a discussion of Nexus and Maven’s release process.

How This Book Is Structured

Chapter 1 starts with a gentle introduction to Maven. It discusses reasons ...