This is the home page for the Maven space, which includes discussions, ideas and design documents. For user-contributed documentation for Maven, see the Maven User space.
Design
Maven 2.1
Maven 2.0
Maven 2.0 Design Documents
Maven 2.0 Use Cases
IRC Log Design Discussion 26 May 2005
Jesse McConnell and John Casey (transcript from IRC)
Jesse McConnell and John Casey on IRC, 01-Feb-2007
Jesse McConnell and John Casey on IRC, 31-Jan-2007
Development Process
Development Process
Development Procedures
Maven Release Process
Why Use Maven
How To Get Involved
Taxonomy
Artifacts & Repositories
Artifact API Improvements
Artifact Handling
Artifact Identity
Artifact Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Custom Repository or Resolver Implementations
Dependency Mediation and Conflict Resolution
Maven repository tools
Best Practices
best practices - deployment of aggregate JARs produced by the assembly plug-in
best practices - jesse's general approach
best practices - location of configuration files vs resources
best practices - multi-profile deployments
best practices - multi-project builds - plug-in inheritance
best practices - multi-project interaction
best practices - multi-user installation
best practices - site management
best practices - testing strategies
best practices - version management in multi project bu
Dependencies
Extending Maven 2.0 Dependencies
IDE
Barriers to Building Eclipse with Maven
Lifecycle
Lifecycle
Lifecycle and Plugin Handling
Plugins
Building and Using Plugins From a Single Maven Session
Maven Plugin Documentation
Maven Plugin Harness
Maven Plugin Matrix
Maven Plugin Status
POM
Arbitrary XML fragment inclusion
Expression Access to POM List Elements
Improves Modules Definition
Profiles
Reporting
Encapsulated reporting
Maven Dashboard
Toolchains
Applying toolchain across plugins