A look at Maven 3 alpha

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” ...

May 22, 2010 · 2 min · 219 words · Micha Kops