What is a good resource for understanding maven

Question

I am not completely new to the maven world, but I never took a couple of hours to actually sit down and understand what maven is. Whenever something needed to be done, I trusted Google as the source, tried the material, and when it worked, I moved on.

I am looking for an online resource that will help me understand the entire maven architecture. For example, what are archetypes. I understand that 2 to 3 hours is not enough to understand everything, but I want to know enough to understand the bits and pieces that come in handy in everyday work. So without looking for a book with maven.

Github projects like these are great because I can mess around with the code.

Answer 1

To understand what you seem to want to understand about Maven, you will need to read something. You can't just pick it up by looking at projects. It would be like trying to learn how to be a chef by going to a restaurant and looking at all the prepared dishes. You can get useful ideas, but you can never understand why / how something works or does not work, because you simply will not have the full picture. Try the link to the sonatip . This is very well written as a reference guide. This should help you get the “big picture” you are looking for, and also useful for finding the details of specific things when you need them.

Update: Almost forgot about Sonatype's cookbook . It is pretty simple, but more task oriented, as you might want.