We are all waiting for a stable release of Maven3 with following updates ..

• faster, more performant .. save us time building our software and some precious memory ;)
• improved artifact resolution api and plugin api
• better osgi integration
• a few bugfixes
• no mixing of application dependencies and tooling dependencies
• though it does not matter that much to me: polyglot features .. e.g.: “Writing your pom files in Groovy”
• version-less parent elements for multi-module or multi-pom projects, no need to define the parent version in every submodule
• better artifact resolution, which dependency or pom supplied which artifact to the outcome .. got that information from: “Splitter from the world of Java”

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