The Maven tool is a software wich provides you management for your projects. It is based on POM concept. Maven can manage build of the project, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information.
With Maven, you can assist your software, all phases, since borning until reuse or recycle. You also can run web applications and do reports on projects with diferent tasks and scrits to let your developing enviroment easier to team work.
Maven's primary goal is to allow a developer to comprehend the complete state of a development effort in the shortest period of time. In order to attain this goal there are several areas of concern that Maven attempts to deal with:
* Making the build process easy
* Providing a uniform build system
* Providing quality project information
* Providing guidelines for best practices development
* Allowing transparent migration to new features
Now, Maven is on Netbeans 7.0 and you can do your application or your project better, including new features, functions, and always testing your app. This tool helps too to whose has a team work, so you can improve your project using maven and every person wich programing with will see, understand and contribute to the code.
If you think that is a big tool, it is not, it is a simple and small tool wich helps you and your team.
corrections; netbeans 6.7 and not 7. sorry......So as well as Maven, Hudson is a good tool to do the same thing, but it is not on netbeans 6.7, however you can download it here.
