Maven: The Definitive Guide

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By Sonatype Company

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Released: September 2008

Pages: 470

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

Introduction
1. Chapter 1 Introducing Apache Maven
  1. Convention over Configuration
  2. A Common Interface
  3. Universal Reuse Through Maven Plugins
  4. Conceptual Model of a “Project”
  5. Is Maven an Alternative to XYZ?
  6. Comparing Maven and Ant
  7. Summary
2. Chapter 2 Installing and Running Maven
  1. Verify Your Java Installation
  2. Downloading Maven
  3. Installing Maven
  4. Testing a Maven Installation
  5. Maven Installation Details
  6. Getting Help with Maven
  7. Using the Maven Help Plugin
  8. About the Apache Software License
Maven by Example
1. Chapter 3 A Simple Maven Project
  1. Introduction
  2. Creating a Simple Project
  3. Building a Simple Project
  4. Simple Project Object Model
  5. Core Concepts
  6. Summary
2. Chapter 4 Customizing a Maven Project
  1. Introduction
  2. Defining the Simple Weather Project
  3. Creating the Simple Weather Project
  4. Customize Project Information
  5. Add New Dependencies
  6. Simple Weather Source Code
  7. Add Resources
  8. Running the Simple Weather Program
  9. Writing Unit Tests
  10. Adding Test-Scoped Dependencies
  11. Adding Unit Test Resources
  12. Executing Unit Tests
  13. Building a Packaged Command-Line Application
3. Chapter 5 A Simple Web Application
  1. Introduction
  2. Defining the Simple Web Application
  3. Creating the Simple Web Project
  4. Configuring the Jetty Plugin
  5. Adding a Simple Servlet
  6. Adding J2EE Dependencies
  7. Conclusion
4. Chapter 6 A Multimodule Project
  1. Introduction
  2. The Simple Parent Project
  3. The Simple Weather Module
  4. The Simple Web Application Module
  5. Building the Multimodule Project
  6. Running the Web Application
5. Chapter 7 Multimodule Enterprise Project
  1. Introduction
  2. The Simple Parent Project
  3. The Simple Model Module
  4. The Simple Weather Module
  5. The Simple Persist Module
  6. The Simple Web Application Module
  7. Running the Web Application
  8. The simple-command Module
  9. Running simple-command
  10. Conclusion
Maven Reference
1. Chapter 8 Optimizing and Refactoring POMs
  1. Introduction
  2. POM Cleanup
  3. Optimizing Dependencies
  4. Optimizing Plugins
  5. Optimizing with the Maven Dependency Plugin
  6. Final POMs
  7. Conclusion
2. Chapter 9 The Project Object Model
  1. Introduction
  2. The POM
  3. POM Syntax
  4. Project Dependencies
  5. Project Relationships
  6. POM Best Practices
3. Chapter 10 The Build Lifecycle
  1. Introduction
  2. Package-Specific Lifecycles
  3. Common Lifecycle Goals
4. Chapter 11 Build Profiles
  1. What Are They For?
  2. Portability Through Maven Profiles
  3. Profile Activation
  4. External Profiles
  5. Settings Profiles
  6. Listing Active Profiles
  7. Tips and Tricks
  8. Summary
5. Chapter 12 Maven Assemblies
  1. Introduction
  2. Assembly Basics
  3. Overview of the Assembly Descriptor
  4. The Assembly Descriptor
  5. Controlling the Contents of an Assembly
  6. Best Practices
  7. Summary
6. Chapter 13 Properties and Resource Filtering
  1. Introduction
  2. Maven Properties
  3. Resource Filtering
7. Chapter 14 Maven and Eclipse: m2eclipse
  1. Introduction
  2. m2eclipse
  3. Installing the m2eclipse Plugin
    1. Installing Prerequisites
      1. Installing Subclipse
      2. Installing Mylyn
      3. Installing AspectJ Development Tools (AJDT)
      4. Installing the Web Tools Platform (WTP)
    2. Installing m2eclipse
  4. Enabling the Maven Console
  5. Creating a Maven Project
    1. Checking Out a Maven Project from SCM
    2. Creating a Maven Project from a Maven Archetype
    3. Creating a Maven Module
  6. Create a Maven POM File
  7. Importing Maven Projects
    1. Importing a Maven Project
    2. Materializing a Maven Project
  8. Running Maven Builds
  9. Working with Maven Projects
    1. Adding and Updating Dependencies and Plugins
    2. Creating a Maven Module
    3. Downloading Source
    4. Opening Project Pages
    5. Resolving Dependencies
  10. Working with Maven Repositories
    1. Searching For Maven Artifacts and Java classes
    2. Indexing Maven Repositories
  11. Using the Form-Based POM Editor
  12. Analyzing Project Dependencies in m2eclipse
  13. Maven Preferences
  14. Summary
8. Chapter 15 Site Generation
  1. Introduction
  2. Building a Project Site with Maven
  3. Customizing the Site Descriptor
  4. Site Directory Structure
  5. Writing Project Documentation
  6. Deploying Your Project Web Site
  7. Customizing Site Appearance
  8. Tips and Tricks
9. Chapter 16 Repository Manager
  1. Introduction
    1. History of Nexus
  2. Installing Nexus
    1. Downloading Nexus from Sonatype
    2. Installing Nexus
    3. Running Nexus
    4. Post-Install Checklist
    5. Startup Scripts for Linux
      1. Add Nexus as a service on Red Hat, Fedora, and CentOS
      2. Add Nexus as a service on Ubuntu
    6. Running Nexus Behind a Proxy
  3. Using Nexus
    1. Browsing Repositories
    2. Browsing Groups
    3. Searching for Artifacts
    4. Browsing System Feeds
    5. Browsing Log Files and Configuration
    6. Changing Your Password
  4. Configuring Maven to Use Nexus Repositories
    1. Using the Nexus Central Proxy Repository
    2. Using Nexus for Snapshot Repositories
    3. Adding Custom Repositories for Missing Dependencies
    4. Adding a New Repository
    5. Adding a Repository to a Group
  5. Configuring Nexus
    1. Customizing Server Configuration
    2. Managing Repositories
    3. Managing Groups
    4. Managing Routes
    5. Managing Scheduled Services
    6. Managing Security
      1. Managing privileges
      2. Managing repository targets
      3. Managing security roles
      4. Managing users
    7. Network Configuration
  6. Maintaining Repositories
    1. Uploading Artifacts to Hosted Repositories
  7. Deploying Artifacts to Nexus
    1. Configuring Deployment Security
    2. Deploying Releases
    3. Deploying Snapshots
    4. Deploying Third-Party Artifacts
10. Chapter 17 Writing Plugins
  1. Introduction
  2. Programming Maven
  3. Plugin Descriptor
  4. Writing a Custom Plugin
  5. Mojo Parameters
  6. Plugins and the Maven Lifecycle
11. Chapter 18 Writing Plugins in Alternative Languages
  1. Writing Plugins in Ant
  2. Creating an Ant Plugin
  3. Writing Plugins in JRuby
  4. Writing Plugins in Groovy
Appendixes
1. Appendix Settings Details
  1. Quick Overview
  2. Settings Details
2. Appendix Sun Specification Alternatives

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This book simply did a top-notch job of getting me familiar with Maven and then showing me the right way to use it effectively. It was not only smart in its organization but so well-written and illustrated with excellent examples that it made me *want* to use Maven immediately.

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The book really deserves much better but I'm VERY glad that I did not pay for that. Because it took me a lot of time trying to work the examples out. The book is available online at the company's site as well as Safari. I'd really be disappointed if I bought this book in print.

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Introduction

Chapter 1 Introducing Apache Maven

Chapter 2 Installing and Running Maven

Maven by Example

Chapter 3 A Simple Maven Project

Chapter 4 Customizing a Maven Project

Chapter 5 A Simple Web Application

Chapter 6 A Multimodule Project

Chapter 7 Multimodule Enterprise Project

Maven Reference

Chapter 8 Optimizing and Refactoring POMs

Chapter 9 The Project Object Model

Chapter 10 The Build Lifecycle

Chapter 11 Build Profiles

Chapter 12 Maven Assemblies

Chapter 13 Properties and Resource Filtering

Chapter 14 Maven and Eclipse: m2eclipse

Chapter 15 Site Generation

Chapter 16 Repository Manager

Chapter 17 Writing Plugins

Chapter 18 Writing Plugins in Alternative Languages

Appendixes

Appendix Settings Details

Appendix Sun Specification Alternatives

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