Apache Maven, is an innovative software project management tool, provides new concept of a project object model (POM) file to manage project’s build, dependency and documentation. The most powerful feature is able to download the project dependency libraries automatically.

Maven Installation

Installation guide on Windows and Ubuntu.

• Install Maven in Windows environment
  Article about how to install Maven in Windows environment.
• Install Maven in linux environment (Ubuntu)
  Article about how to install Ubuntu.

Maven Configuration

All stuff about the Maven configuration.

• Enable the proxy in Maven
  To use proxy server to connect internet, you have to configure the proxy setting in Maven.

Maven Repository

Maven local, central and remote repository configuration and explanation.

• Maven local repository
  Maven local repository is used to store the project dependency libraries, and the default folder is “.m2″, you may need to change it to another folder.
• Maven central repository
  Maven central repository is the default location to download all the project dependency libraries.
• Maven remote repository – link1, link2
  Not all libraries are store in Maven central repository, often times, you need to add some remote repositories to download the libraries from another location instead of the default central repository.
• Install custom library into Maven local repository
  Many libraries are still not support Maven pom.xml concept, here’s a guide to show how to include the “non-maven-support” library into Maven local repository.
• Maven library dependency explanation
  Article about the different of dependency library in tradition way and Maven way, and explains where Maven will search those library.

Maven Hands-on

• Create a project with Maven template
  Maven provides more than 40+ Java project template to let you start a new Java project easily.
• Create a Dynamic Web Project in Eclipse IDE
  Quick guide to create a dynamic web project or Java project in Eclipse IDE.
• Quick start Maven + Spring Example
  A quick start to create a project with Maven and Spring.

Maven Tips and Tricks

Maven tips and tricks to use Maven efficiently.

• Convert Java web project to Maven project
  Here’s an article to guide how to convert an existing Java project to Maven style project.
• Change Maven resources folder location
  A guide to show how to add another resource folder into your Maven’s project.
• Search Maven coordinates with Google
  How do you know the library Maven coordinate? Search it folder by folder on Maven repository? Here’s a tip to use Google site search to get the Maven coordinate from Maven repository.
• Skip unit test during Maven build
  Here’s a tip to skip Maven to run your project unit test during project build, because run all the project unit test by default is not necessary in all times.

Maven Plugin

All about useful Maven’s plugins.

• Maven Ant Plugin
  A plugin to generate Ant build file (build.xml) from Maven’s pom.xml file.

Maven Coordinates

Some of the popular ask Maven coordinate details, which are not stored in the default Maven central repository.

• J2EE API (javaee.jar)
• JavaMail API

Maven Common Errors

All the common error messages in Maven.

• Maven dependency libraries not deploy in Eclipse IDE
• Unsupported WTP version: 1.5
• Annotations are not supported in -source 1.3
• Tomcat deploy Maven project web.xml to a wrong folder in Eclipse

Maven Reference

• Apache Maven official tutorials
• Apache Maven (Wiki)