2.7. Getting Help with Maven
While this book aims to be a comprehensive reference, there are going
to be topics we will miss and special situations and tips which are
not covered. While the core of Maven is very simple, the real work in
Maven happens in the plugins, and there are too many plugins available
to cover them all in one book. You are going to encounter problems and
features which have not been covered in this book; in these cases, we
suggest searching for answers at the following locations:
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http://maven.apache.org
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This will be the first place to look. The Maven web site contains a
wealth of information and documentation. Every plugin has a few
pages of documentation and there is a series of "quick start"
documents which will be helpful in addition to the content of this
book. While the Maven site contains a wealth of information, it can
also be frustrating, confusing, and overwhelming. There is a
custom Google search box on the main Maven page that will search
known Maven sites for information. This provides better results
than a generic Google search.
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Maven User Mailing List
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The Maven User mailing list is the place for users to ask
questions. Before you ask a question on the user mailing list, you
will want to search for any previous discussion that might relate
to your question. It is bad form to ask a question that has already
been asked without first checking to see if an answer already
exists in the archives. There are a number of useful mailing list
archive browsers; we’ve found Nabble to the be the most useful. You
can browse the User mailing list archives at
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/maven-users/. You
can join the user mailing list by following the instructions
available at
http://maven.apache.org/mail-lists.html.
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http://books.sonatype.com
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Sonatype maintains an online copy of this book and other tutorials
related to Apache Maven.
