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The Maven2 book has been released and is available for free online. … continue

I'm happy to announce that a Maven 2 book is being written. It'll be a new book published by Mergere. The current writer team is composed of Maven veterans. By alphabetical order: John D. Casey, Vincent Massol, Brett Porter, Carlos Sanchez, Jason Van Zyl and other contributors.

The book will be made available online for free to the community. The target date for publication … continue

Vincent will present Maven 2.0 at Javapolis 2005 on the 15th of December, at 17:00 in Room 1. Come and join us!

Vincent has presented From Maven 1 to Maven 2 at JavaZone 2005. His slides have been made continue

In complement to Maven: A Developer's Notebook we are pleased to offer you an article on building J2EE projects with Maven. We thought that it was an area that we didn't fully cover in the book for lack of space. Thus we've decided to publish this article as … continue

The JavaZone 2005 conference is scheduled on the 14th and 15th of September 2005. Vincent Massol will be presenting From Maven 1.0 to Maven 2.0 and Jason Van Zyl will be presenting Maven 2.0. Lots of good advertising for Maven 2.0!

Here are the latest Maven 1.x plugin releases (latest first):

• Artifact 1.6 (Maven 1.1 only)
• Developer Activity 1.5.2

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Wow! I've just seen on Craig's blog that Maven: A Developer's Notebook was third in the JavaOne bookstore best selling list. Amazing! So there are some people loving Maven after all :-)

There is strong interest in Maven at JavaOne. I dealt with a number of questions after Sun revealed it is using Maven for Project GlassFish in the Day One keynote. If you are at JavaOne, I'd encourage you to stop by three booths:

• The O'Reilly Booth - The O'Reilly booth is toward the back of the Pavillion, stop by and check out the latest books and learn about SafariU. I'm … continue

There are three Maven presentations at JavaOne. I'll be giving two presentations in the Oracle section of the JavaOne Pavillion, and Jason van Zyl is going to give a BOF session on Maven 2.

My presentation is entitled "Project Automation and Management with Apache Maven", and I will emphasize some practical … continue

The Maven: A Developer's Notebook book will be available at JavaOne 2005. Tim will give several Maven presentations. This is an event organized by Oracle which has a mini-theater at JavaOne where they give … continue

A beta Chapter 1 is available online on the O'Reilly web site. This is the first chapter and is meant mostly for readers new to Maven. There will also be a more advanced chapter … continue

Alright, the book is almost ready you can pre-order it from Amazon now.

At last, Tim and I have finished the full review of the book. It's now going to the printer. We have planned it so that it is available for JavaOne. Thus it should be available in your favorite bookstore around mid-June.