General Maven Documentation

Why use Maven?

• http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/11/why_maven.html
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/01/maven-debate

Maven Principles

• http://maven.apache.org/what-is-maven.html

Getting Started

Articles

• Maven Getting Started Guide
• An introduction to Maven 2: How applied best practices can optimize the Java build process

Books

• Maven: The Complete Reference
• Maven by Example
• Better Builds with Maven

Repository Managers

What is a Repository Manager?

• http://maven.apache.org/repository-management.html

Available Repository Managers

• Archiva: http://maven.apache.org/archiva/
• Artifactory: http://www.jfrog.org/sites/artifactory/latest/
• Nexus: http://nexus.sonatype.org/

Enterprise Super POM

• http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-05-2006/jw-0529-maven.html
• http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-pom.html
• http://maven.apache.org/pom.html

IDE Integration

• maven-eclipse-plugin: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-eclipse-plugin/
• M2Eclipse: http://m2eclipse.codehaus.org/
• Q4E: http://code.google.com/p/q4e/