Brent Worden

When people talk about scalability, they are usually referring to how well an application performs with an ever-increasing load. Another type of scalability that needs attention during an application's life cycle is build scalability, or how well an application's build and deployment scales with ever-increasing complexity and components. Maven is a build tool from Apache that addresses build scalability. Maven uses simple project descriptors and a highly extensible and open architecture to build, deploy, and release application components. Through project descriptors, new components can be added to an application's build with little effort from a developer. Once added, Maven determines the component's placement in the application build order through its dependencies, an... (more)