ApacheMaven

An open-source tool for ContinuousIntegration and project comprehension of many sorts of Java applications hosted at http://maven.apache.org/. If you define your project in Maven's structure, using a project.xml file:

• Maven can build it continuously for you or on some schedule
• other developers can immediately understand where all the parts of your project are
• all the most popular open-source build, documentation, and reporting tools can be plugged in immediately using Maven extensions

Articles

• (May 2006) Maven 2 POM demystified
• (Oct 2003) Developing with Maven - Replace Ant with Maven?
• (Apr 2003) Maven makes it easy

See also

• http://m2eclipse.codehaus.org/
• http://code.google.com/p/q4e/
• http://mevenide.codehaus.org/
• Ant

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