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Apache Maven 3 Cookbook

By : Srirangan
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Apache Maven 3 Cookbook

By: Srirangan

Overview of this book

<p>Apache Maven is more than just build automation. When positioned at the very heart of your development strategy, Apache Maven can become a force multiplier not just for individual developers but for agile teams and managers. This book covers implementation of Apache Maven with popular enterprise technologies/frameworks and introduces agile collaboration techniques and software engineering best practices integrated with Apache Maven.</p> <p>The Apache 3 Maven Cookbook is a real-world collection of step-by-step solutions for individual programmers, teams, and managers to explore and implement Apache Maven and the engineering benefits it brings into their development processes.</p> <p>This book helps with the basics of Apache Maven and with using it to implement software engineering best practices and agile team collaboration techniques. It covers a broad range of emergent and enterprise technologies in the context of Apache Maven, and concludes with recipes on extending Apache Maven with custom plugins.</p> <p>We look at specific technology implementations through Apache Maven including Java Web Applications, Enterprise Java Frameworks, Cloud Computing, Mobile / Device development, and more. We also look at Maven integration with popular IDEs including Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJIDEA.</p> <p>The book is rounded off by exploring extending the Apache Maven platform by building custom plugins, integrating them with existing projects, and executing them through explicit command-line calls or with Maven Build Phases.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Apache Maven 3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Integrating Flex development with Maven


Adobe Flex is one of the pioneers and leaders in the Rich Internet Applications (RIA) space, and with the advent of Adobe AIR, it has proved itself as a viable option for desktop and mobile applications as well.

Here's how Adobe describes Flex on http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/:

"Build engaging, cross-platform rich Internet applications

Flex is a highly productive, free, open source framework for building expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems by leveraging the Adobe® Flash® Player and Adobe AIR® runtimes."

Flex is a rich framework that lets you build rich applications for deployment on the Internet as well as desktops and devices. Flex application code consists of MXML (.mxml) and ActionScript (.as) files, classes, and packages. It compiles to produce a SWF (.swf) artifact that can be rendered in the Flash Player and Adobe AIR runtime.

While Adobe ships a good IDE, that is, Adobe...