Maven is a new project management and comprehension tool which provides an elegant way to share build logic across projects. Using Maven, you can take advantage of people's experience to avoid the tedious process of creating another build script for each new project. Maven: A Developer's Notebook begins by introducing you to the concept of project object model (POM), and then offers further details about the essential features of Maven. You'll discover how Maven can help you: managing a project to build, reporting, and documentation, all of a piece of information center break complex projects into a series of reports of sub-projects smaller in code quality, unit tests, code duplication, and project activities create a custom remote repository build simple and complex plug-ins In the end, you'll find yourself spending less time working on your project build system and more time working on your project code.