Maven: The Definitive Guide | 
 enlarge | Author: Sonatype Company
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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ISBN: 0596517335
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Product Description
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 ArchetypesSeveral 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.
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 Great Introductory and Reference Book December 2, 2008
Previously the only reference book I could find on maven 2 was BetterBuildsWithMaven. Which was also a good book. However I think that this is a better introductory reference. I think that this book is indispensible for anyone using maven. This book is available online at the sonatype website as well. I like the discussion of the Repository Manager Nexus. We were previously using Archiva and Nexus has worked better. The book does a good job of walking you through simple to complex projects to understand the how to setup projects well in Maven, and learn simple to advanced maven concepts.
 Good information but examples full of errors November 29, 2008
None of the books/documents I've read until now explains Maven like this book. The style and the approach of showing through examples are great. But the example codes are full of errors. It shadows the quality of the maerial.
This is a Maven book right? Not a java book. So if you want to learn the details of Maven in an iterative approach you'd follow the examples. It's best when you don't use an IDE as all IDEs to some degree hide Maven details and you cannot get the essence of it without writing mvn at the command line. The problem is the sample code are full of stupid errors. As if they were not even compiled. Such as passing String to a method expecting and integer, wrong package names. Things that really should have not been in the book.
Therefore I rate this 5 star book as 3 because of the loss of time it caused to me fixing and submitting errata.
Great product ... needs a little work and fact checking November 26, 2008
I have been skirting the edge of Apache Maven for about 3-4 years now. Maven 1.x was an utter disaster for me to wrap my head around. Maven 2.x is a whole different animal that rapidly allows a developer to begin and configure a project.
The great thing about this book is the explanation of the property management, dependency management & configuration, and overall interrelation of the Project Object Model (POM).
The down side is the coverage on external settings and profiles (settings.xml and profiles.xml) ... They don't work the way described in the book.
Overall great book to have on the shelf in the library.
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