Maven: The Definitive Guide

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, webapplications, and enterprise applications. And it comes straight from the source.

Title Maven: The Definitive Guide
Authors Timothy M. O'Brien, Sonatype Company
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition (May 11, 2009)
Paperback: 468 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596517335
ISBN-13: 978-0596517335
eBook: http://blog.sonatype.com/2010/01/maven-the-definitive-guide-split-into-two-books/

Developing with Eclipse and Maven

The m2eclipse plugin is fully documented in the free, online book Developing with Eclipse and Maven. This book covers the installation and configuration of the plugin as well as detailing some of the procedures you can use to:

    Create projects using Maven Archetypes
    Check Out a Maven Project from SCM
    Import Maven Projects
    Materialize a Maven Project
    Add and Update Dependencies and Plugins
    Download Source and Javadoc
    Resolve Dependencies
    Search Remote Repositories for Maven Artifacts and Java classes
    Use the Form-based POM Editor
    Analyze Project Dependencies in m2eclipse

Title Developing with Eclipse and Maven
Authors Timothy M. O'Brien, John Casey, Brian FoxSonatype, et al
Publisher: Sonatype, Inc.(July 27, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: N/A
ISBN-13: 978-0-9842433-1-0
eBook: http://books.sonatype.com/m2eclipse-book/reference/

Maven: The Complete Reference

Maven is a project management tool which encompasses a project object model, a set of standards, a project lifecycle, a dependency management system, and logic for executing plugin goals at defined phases in a lifecycle. When you use Maven, you describe your project using a well-defined project object model, Maven can then apply cross-cutting logic from a set of shared (or custom) plugins. The Complete Reference is an essential tool for anyone currently working with Maven.

Although there are a number of references for Maven online, there is no single, well-written narrative for introducing Maven that can serve as both an authoritative reference and an introduction. This book provides such a narrative coupled with useful reference material.
About the Author

    Tim M O'Brien is a professional singer and programmer living and working in the Chicago area. He prefers Emacs to vi. Tim discovered programming on a TRS-80, and went on to study (and subsequently forget) Electrical Engineering at UVA. In his free time, Tim likes to sleep, study music, build toys with microcontrollers, and participate in open source projects. Tim is active in the Jakarta Commons project.

    Sonatype Company is Jason Van Zyl's company and pretty much the center of the Maven universe. Jason Van Zyl is the inventor and lead developer of Maven.

Title Maven: The Complete Reference
Authors Timothy M. O'Brien, John Casey, Brian FoxSonatype, et al
Publisher: Sonatype, Inc.(November 19, 2009-2011)
Paperback: 303 pages
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0-9842433-4-1
eBook: http://books.sonatype.com/mvnref-book/reference/index.html