+1 If you want to trim it a bit, I'd remove the reference to the repo mgr.
Good practice, yes. Needed, no. -Chris Sent from my iPhone On 12/02/2013, at 4:26 PM, "Manfred Moser" <[email protected]> wrote: >> This is similar to what I've used to describe it to people in the past: >> >> Apache Maven is a build management and automation system that defines a >> standard build lifecycle as well a plug-in mechanism to perform activities >> using project configuration during specific lifecycle phases of the build >> process. Maven also features a robust and efficient dependency and plug-in >> resolution mechanism to support: these build activities, the lifecycle >> phases, the build configuration. The resulting artifacts including the >> primary output as well as project metrics and reporting. > > > Way too much jargon and too long. What is a artifact? A lifecycle? > > Apache Maven is a convention-over-configuration based software build > system for the JVM and other platforms. It includes declarative dependency > management for your dependencies as well as its own plugins. These plugins > do most of the work for Maven and make it extensible and very powerful. > Together with the usage of a repository manager it is the most powerful > and widely used build system in enterprise as well as open source use > cases. > > Still too long though imho.. but something to work with. > > Manfred > http://www.simpligility.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
