Better Builds with Maven

"How-to Guide for the Apache Software Foundation's Maven 2.0 and Continuum projects, with both introductory and advanced topics on how to leverage Maven's declarative, meta-data driven POM (Project Object Model), standardized lifecycle process, and plugin framework to bring visibility, quality, and efficiency to how development and QA teams build, test and release software in today's highly distributed, component-based, and real-time engineering world. This comprehensive How-to Guide highlights the history and philosophy of Maven, but is available with example code also, providing practical, step-by-step instructions on how to set up and configure your build environment, work with sample J2EE application server builds, extend your build platform through plugins, monitor your source code, tests, dependencies and releases, leverage continous integration, manage artifact repositories and dependencies, as well as convert from existing Ant-based builds."