Warming up with Maven 3

Hi all,

This morning I switched to Maven 3. It has been as simple as:

1) Building the binaries (using Maven of course)

2) Untarring (unzipping) the generated artifact to a location of my choice

3) Changing $M2_HOME to point to the new Maven location

Eveything else just worked.

The main new features in Maven 3 are:

• Performance improvement
• The use of Google guice instead of Plexus as Dependency Injection Framework
• Support for multiple JVM scripting languages (Groovy,  etc)
• Full backwards compatible with Maven 2
• A reduction of 2/3 in the code base :-)
• Support for incremental changes; this makes m2eclipse implementation ways faster
• Many other small improvements. To know more you can follow Sonatype blog

Happy technology to everyone!