Maven 3 documentation

Question

I can't find any good documentation for the new version of maven (Maven 3) There are few blog entries that are mostly related to Maven 3 Beta.

Do you know of any official/unofficial documentation or tutorial for Maven 3?

Answer 1

From the Maven3 Plan, you get the Maven3 wiki, which is the closest piece of "maven 3-specific" documentation out there.

Answer 2

You can find the documentation on the official website right here http://maven.apache.org/ref/3.0.2/index.html

The documentation is on the left hand side.

Answer 3

The current Maven 3 documentation is on the main Maven site. It is still getting updated however, and I'm sure would appreciate help with any inconsistencies that you find. Because of the amount of work that went into making Maven 3 backwards compatible, most of the documentation is still valid. The compatibility notes do a good job highlighting the differences.

If you're already using Maven 2 and are looking for reasons to upgrade, see the stack overflow question on whether Maven 3 is worth it.

Also, note that due to the nature of betas/alphas/release candidates, the documentation shouldn't change much between versions, so all the blog posts on pre-release Maven 3s should be pretty much correct.

Answer 4

On a sidenote, I can tell you what is not Maven 3 documentation: Apache Maven 3 Cookbook, shiny new from print this month. It does not talk about sophisticated native americans cooking recipes, but neither does give you anything useful specifically related to Maven 3. Learn from my painful experience and stay away from it (still a decent book on Maven in general, though).