Who: The Apache Software Foundation (ASF): all-volunteer developers, stewards,
and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives.
What: In development for nearly 10 years, and an ASF Top-Level Project since
2003, Apache Maven is the build system of choice for millions of developers and
thousands of organizations world-wide.
Why: Maven 3 represents the culmination of nearly two years of work
re-architecting the internals of the system based on experience gained over the
last five years with Maven 2.x. Maven 3 is faster, more reliable, and more
extensible, with users already reporting 10-40% improvements in build time over
Maven 2.
"A key priority for our users was backward compatibility," said Brian Fox, Vice
President of Apache Maven. "We've invested a significant amount of time and
effort to ensure a smooth transition while maintaining backward compatibility
with Maven 2 builds and plugins."
Highlights of the release include:
* Parallel build capability
* Conversion of IoC system from Plexus to Guice, including a Plexus
compatibility layer
* Rewritten dependency resolution logic, designed to be extensible and
embedded in other applications
* Improved POM validation during the build to warn users of potential
problems
* Improved error handling and messages
* Decoupled reporting engine from the core
* New inheritance and interpolation code designed to be extensible and
allow composition of POMs in future releases
* More robust handling of local repository data
* True plugin classpath isolation
* Massively improved regression test suite for Maven core and plugins
Further details are available at
http://maven.apache.org/docs/3.0/release-notes.html
When: Apache Maven 3 was released on 8 October 2010 In addition, Apache Maven
training will be held on 1 November at ApacheCon in Atlanta, Georgia.
Where: Apache Maven 3 is released under the Apache License v2.0, and available
for download at http://maven.apache.org/ For details on Maven training visit
http://apachecon.com
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