The Maven Handbook

This book will never be done. It will hopefully follow the evolution of Maven itself.

An attempt by community for community to collect all the information about Apache Maven.


Overview

Here’s where your user finds out if your project is for them.

Contribution Guidelines

How to contribute to the docs

Introducing Maven

Where it all started…

Common concepts

The groundwork

Settings and Environment

The groundwork

Project Object Model

The groundwork

Build Lifecycle

The groundwork

Grand Picture

The groundwork

Best Practices

The groundwork


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