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Maven: The Definitive Guide - New From O'Reilly
All you need to know, from ideation to deployment 

Sebastopol, CA--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.

"Maven: The Definitive Guide" (O'Reilly, US $34.99) serves as both an
introduction and a comprehensive reference for Apache Maven, the tool that
will transform the way an organization builds and manages application
development. Written by members of Sonatype's engineering team--including
Jason van Zyl, the creator of the Maven central repository--the book
explains why Maven is replacing Ant as the tool of choice, not just for
open source Java projects, but for applications in many other languages,
including Scala, Ruby, and Groovy. The book also provides the first
in-depth overview of Maven 2.

Tim O'Brien, the primary contributor to the book, notes that while Maven's
online documentation has been improving over time, it still has some
frustrating gaps, despite the best efforts of many: "It will bring you far
enough along to solving your problem and abandon you just when you needed
it most," says O'Brien. "Sonatype recognized the need for a definitive,
well-written reference book engineered for both novice and veteran Maven
users.  What Sonatype has tried to do with 'Maven: The Definitive Guide'
is assemble a vast amount of introductory and reference material in a
single book with a clear and concise writing style. My goal was concise
writing." O'Brien is online editor of O'Reilly News and author of three
other O'Reilly titles: "Harnessing Hibernate," "Maven: A Developer's
Notebook," and "Jakarta Commons Cookbook."

O'Brien points out that Maven is a highly modular open source community
with a sizable team of core committers and hundreds of plugin developers
scattered throughout the world. With contributions coming from such
diverse sources, it's difficult to create documentation with a single
style and clarity, without the feedback and support that a publisher like
O'Reilly can provide.

"There has been a great deal of criticism thrown at Maven over the past
few years, and I've been party to some of that criticism.  At the root of
much of this criticism is a lack of understanding, an inability to use
Maven not due to lack of capability but due to lack of documentation,"
says O'Brien. "I have often said that Maven's adoption has been limited by
poorly executed and frustrating documentation, but with the release of
this book, that criticism is no longer valid. There will always be more
work to do, and Sonatype is committed to continuing to invest in
critically important documentation efforts. We've created the reference
that will serve as a foundation for future community growth, and this was
only possible because of the support of Jason van Zyl at Sonatype and Mike
Loukides at O'Reilly Media."

The first half of this book introduces Maven by example, with a series of
real-world, multi-module applications that can be used as templates. The
second half serves as a reference to a wide range of topics, teaching
readers how to:

- Get started with Maven
- Understand the Project Object Model (POM) 
- Integrate Maven with Eclipse 
- Master advanced dependency management 
- Use the Nexus repository manager
- Integrate Maven with Spring and Hibernate
- Write and use Maven plugins 
- Generate a project website 
- Customize a build with properties
- Use build profiles and profile activation
- Create and use Maven assemblies
- Develop with Maven archetypes

Written for the new user and veteran alike, "Maven: The Definitive Guide"
is the perfect guide to managing development projects for software, web
applications, and enterprise applications.

For more information about the book, including table of contents, index,
author bio, and samples, see:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517335/

Maven: The Definitive Guide
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