Maven 3 for Ubuntu
1. What is maven?
Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information.
Maven's primary goal is to allow a developer to comprehend the complete state of a development effort in the shortest period of time. In order to attain this goal there are several areas of concern that Maven attempts to deal with:
- Making the build process easy
- Providing a uniform build system
- Providing quality project information
- Providing guidelines for best practices development
- Allowing transparent migration to new features
2. Ubuntu Package for Maven 3
This page provides only a Debian/Ubuntu package of Maven 3. For installing this package, please use the Ubuntu package repository of Arakhnê.org. The package differs from those provided by Ubuntu on:
- A single package is provided with all Maven inside, and
- The installed Maven does not depend on additional libraries that are installed on the Ubuntu system, as it is done by the Ubuntu's version of this package.