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The Maven Build Process

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Apr. 13, 2008 11:00 AM

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A build tool helps developers compile, package, and deploy a component as part of a project's development lifecycle. Most of the time an enterprise needs a well-defined build process that can:
1) Define a process that can be adopted by various teams (developers, build engineers) to build software consistently and easily.
2) Manage reusable components generated from the projects.

This article aims to establish such a build process architecture based on Maven and Artifactory tools.

Maven Features
Maven is a build tool and a software project management tool from Apache that helps monitor and control software projects. Most enterprises have standardized on the Ant build, which is reliable, easily configurable, and efficient in meeting most project build needs. Maven is more than a build tool and a few of its features are listed in Table 1 on comparison with Ant.

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About Ravi Muthusubramanian
M.Ravi is a technical architect for the Banking & Capital Markets Division of Infosys. He has almost 8 years of experience in various facets of the software development life cycle and specializes in providing architecture and design solutions based on broad of spectrum of technologies including JEE, SOA, Message Broker, SAS and CRM.

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