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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

Creating a Maven project with IntelliJ IDEA 10.5


An extremely popular alternative to Eclipse and NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA is according to many programmers, the best IDE available. While Eclipse and NetBeans are quite similar to each other, JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA offers a unique experience to the developer.

In my personal experience, after years of using Eclipse and NetBeans, when I migrated to IntelliJ IDEA, at first it was a little challenging. However, within a matter of days, I could experience productivity enhancements in my own work. Now it has been a while since I migrated to IntelliJ IDEA and I'm as strong an advocate as any for JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA.

Originating back in 2001, it was the pioneer of popular features now taken for granted, including code navigation and re-factoring. It is now available as commercial software and also as a free, open source community software. According to Wikipedia:

"JetBrains is a Czech software development company with offices in Prague, Czech Republic...