I wrote a review on the Packt Maven book: http://books.dzone.com/reviews/apache-maven-2-effective
I am not a big fan of Packt books. I like O'Reilly and Manning mostly. Anyways, it would be nice if this new best practices book also covered how to create a custom lifecycle (and when, why, etc.). Designing with a hierarchical structure (parent POMs), POM/modules, how to speed up your builds, how to deal with corrupted repositories, best ways to write plugins, etc. What's new in Maven 3 (e.g., writing pom.groovy), Maven shell, etc. and how to incorporate into daily builds. Best ways to integrate with Ant via maven-antrun-plugin or an Ant build.xml using <macrodef> to hook into mvn lifecycle builds. When and why to use and integrate with CI (e.g. Continuum) servers. How, why and when to use profiles; settings.xml envmt config. POM refactoring. some of this is covered in the Packt book (refactoring and best practices IIRC). -- View this message in context: http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Write-Maven-Books-Packt-Publishing-tp1040186p1044790.html Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
