Top 10 New Features in Maven 3

Maven 3.0 was just released and the Java build tool has come a long way since version 2 was released almost six years back. Maven 2 had reached a stage where it was difficult to extend and its code was difficult to understand. In version 3.0 many of the Maven internals have been revamped to overcome all the issues associated with Maven 2. In this article, I run down the top 10 features in Maven 3.

1. Backward Compatibility

2. Performance Improvement

3. Automatic Parent Versioning

4. Parallel Builds

5. Better Error and Integrity Reporting

6. Plugin Extension Points

7. Mixins

8. Maven Shell

9. Polyglot Builds

10. M2Eclipse

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