Learning Apache Maven 3

I have just finished watching to this Pack video course about Maven, on youtube there is a preview that shows what you can expect from it.

It is designed to follow a Java programmer who knows nothing about Maven from the absolute beginning to writing a multi module project.

The major emphasis is on Maven for Windows plus Eclipse, just at the beginning it is shown how to install Maven on Linux and Mac, and how to integrate it also in Intellij and NetBeans. This is not a big issue, since we are in the Java world, and the platform differences are usually not too harsh.

The course is structured in four parts. After the installation/integration done in the introduction, we are guided to write a first "hello world" application. The third block is about creating a Web App by Maven that uses features from Struts2, Hibernate, and Spring. The last part shows how to develop a client/sever multi module project.

I found the standard price for this course a bit excessive, but in this bargains season, at less than five bucks, I wouldn't see how to complain.

It works fine as an introduction to the matter, in a couple of hours you can't expect to become a Maven master, but I'd say it succeeds in giving a good overview.

It has a few weak spots, too. Mainly, the audio comment is not lively at all, and there is a curious alternation in voices that I found distracting. Hear this, for instance, at around 1.30:

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Maven 3 video course

I have got a pointer to this video course on Apache Maven 3, you could also find a preview on YouTube that gives the gist of it.

It is a couple of hours long, it looks to be designed as an introduction to Maven for a Java developer who has no (or little) previous knowledge of it.

Since I use Maven in an unstructured way, it would probably good for me to find the way to spend time watching it. I plan to do it in the near future, and writing something more about it.

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