Maven2 book is out
[ vmassol ] 10:05, Thursday, 27 April 2006

Our Maven2 is book is officially out. Here's the marketing pitch:

"Better Builds with Maven”"

  • is a comprehensive 'How-to' guide for use with Maven 2.0.4 and later
  • is available free of charge and includes supporting sample code
  • covers how to use Maven 2.0 to better manage the build, test and release cycles associated with software development
  • is written for beginning and intermediate Maven users
  • is authored by Maven experts
  • Jason Van Zyl, Chief Architect and founder of Maven
  • Vincent Massol, author of "Maven: a Developers Notebook"
  • with chapters and key content and code contributions from leading Apache Software Foundation Maven Project members: Brett Porter, John Casey and Carlos Sanchez.
  • is published by Mergere, Inc

Content Includes:

  • An introduction to Maven 2.0
  • Creating, compiling and packaging your first project
  • Best practices and real-world examples
  • Creating J2EE builds and using J2EE models
  • Extending builds through plugins
  • Monitoring source code, testing, dependencies and releases
  • Leveraging repositories, Continuum for continuous integration and transitive dependencies
  • Converting existing Ant builds to Maven

Download a free copy at http://library.mergere.com.

I hope this book will help boost Maven2's adoption.

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Vincent, is this "official" release any different than a few weeks ago when we first heard about it? Is it worth requesting another copy?

--Winston Rast, April 27, 2006 03:37 PM

Winston, it's quite similar but we've fixed a few issues. If I were you I'd download the new version and ditch the old one. Thanks.

--Vincent Massol, April 27, 2006 05:35 PM
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