Maven

External

• Maven Guides https://maven.apache.org/guides/
• Central Maven repository http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/

Maven Repository Search

http://search.maven.org

Subjects

• Concepts
• Maven Configuration Files
  • pom.xml
  • settings.xml
• Standard Directory Layout
• Standard System Properties
• Building a Complex Release Artifact
• Programmatic Maven
• Timestamp Support

Plugin

A Maven plugin are pieces of functionality that provide goals. A plugin has one or more goals, and each goal represents a capability of that plugin.

Commonly used plugins are:

• assembly
• compiler
• dependency
• deploy
• ear
• exec
• enforcer
• install
• jar
• resources
• source
• surefire