Maven: The Definitive Guide

Getting Help with Maven

Although this book aims to be a comprehensive reference, there are going to be topics we miss and special situations and tips that are not covered. The core of Maven is very simple, but the real work in Maven happens in the plugins, and there are too many plugins available to cover them all in one book. When you encounter problems and features that are not covered in this book, we suggest searching for answers at the following locations:

http://maven.apache.org

This is the first place you should look; the Maven web site contains a wealth of information and documentation. Every plugin has a few pages of documentation, and it provides a series of “quick start” documents that will be helpful in addition to the contents of this book. Although the Maven site contains plenty of information, it can also be a frustrating, confusing, and overwhelming. A custom Google search box on the main Maven page will search known Maven sites for information. This provides better results than a generic Google search.

Maven user mailing list

The Maven user mailing list is the place for users to ask questions. Before you ask a question on the user mailing list, you will want to search for any previous discussion that might relate to your question. It is bad form to ask a question that has already been asked without first checking to see whether an answer already exists in the archives. There are a number of useful mailing list archive browsers; we’ve found Nabble to be the most ...