Apache Maven Fundamentals (part 1 of 4)

Tips

 

covers build-oritented phases in ALM which are build management, testing, release version and deployment.

Project oriented, dependency management, extensible through plugs-in and resue through centralized repositories

Project(task) driven, Lifecycle(task) driven and Simplicity(assumes defaults for every project);

every pom extends the super POM(bundle with Maven)

maven v. ant [build file comparison]

maven is an alternative to Ant

maven has a plugin to execute the ant task to ease the learning curve