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Apache Maven In 10 Slides
The document provides an overview of Apache Maven, highlighting its uses for building software including libraries, applications, and plugins. It details Maven's characteristics such as being open-source, declarative, extensible, and community-driven while emphasizing its values of reproducibility, standardization, and resource management. The document also mentions the support for POM inheritance and project aggregation, along with a note on its unofficial status and the importance of conventions in its use.
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- 1. Apache Maven in10 Slides An Unofficial Outline This is OpenTalkWare http://www.opentalkware.org CC-BY-3.0
- 2. Maven... • builds software • libraries, • applications, • distributions, • plugins • ...and Maven
- 3. Maven is... • opensource • developed at Apache • originated in Jakarta • influenced by house style • to reduce maintenance of component builds • widely used in open source • community driven
- 4. Maven is... • declarative • POM describes project • User asks Maven to operate • Maven reads POM and runs
- 5. Maven is... • extensible • highly extensible • plugins... • hooks... • lifecycle extensions... • ...almost everything — • about Maven, almost nothing is true in general
- 6. Maven is... • comprehensive • lots of extensions • powerful • flexible • but Maven demands control
- 7. Maven values... • reproducibility • minimal build variance • process automation • standard choreography • limits local adaption
- 8. Maven values... • repositories • as caches • as resource locators • as promoting finely grained component models • as encouraging open source
- 9. Maven values... • conventions • "You can have any..." • "... colour as long as it's black." — Ford • "... convention as long as you code it." — Maven • adoption is strongly recommended • battle tested
- 10. Maven POMs support... •inheritance • but not mixins • (with predictable problems) • efficient maintainable readable POMs • remember all projects inherit
- 11. Maven POMs support... •aggregation • master build for modules • master not always module parent • reporting sometimes tricky • dependencies sometimes tricky
- 12. Thanks • To theApache Maven project of the Apache Software Foundation • Based on An Unofficial Outline: Apache Maven in 10 Slides by OpenTalkWare. Original source is available under CC-BY. UI based on S5 which is public domain. "Apache Maven" and "Maven" are marks of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). This unofficial guide was created without the permission of the ASF. • OpenTalkWare — http://www.opentalkware.org