I already mentioned earlier, maven is just a framework of plugins. This article talks about the essential maven plugins, handy for every developer. There are Maven plugins for almost every task. Make sure you have read my previous article on Maven plugins in-depth. In Effective Pom, I showed you that by default there are several maven plugins that get inherited [...]
Maven Tutorial - A complete tutorial with code examples. This tutorial is an advanced maven tutorial meant to make you a Hero in Apache maven. Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project’s build, reporting, and documentation from a central piece of information. [...]
Apache maven is often misunderstood as just a java build tool, which means people think maven is a tool that only creates deployable artifacts (jar, war, zip, ear, etc) from the source code. Many beginners try to compare maven with other build tools like Ant and Ivy, but in reality, maven is much more than that. Because build tool [...]
