Hi Srirangan
I would be very interested in this – have been considering a maven 3 title and the cookbook style works well. I’m currently converting a huge maven 2 project to version 3 focusing on tests, intrgration tests, meter, static analysis.
Where are you up to with your book and any areas in particular where you need help?
Thanks Ben
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On 7 Jul 2010, at 10:27, Srirangan wrote:
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 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).