Tag Archives: Sonatype books

Minor Update to the m2eclipse Book (Edition 1.2)


January 15, 2011 By Tim O'Brien

At Sonatype, our books are constantly evolving and we’re planning on some big changes in the m2eclipse book over the next few months including new information about how to use m2eclipse in concert with our other product offerings Nexus and Matrix. Today, a much smaller change: announcing a very minor update to the Sonatype m2eclipse book.

Edition 1.2 contains the following minor updates:

  1. Added a new appendix: Appendix B, Contributing to the m2eclipse Book. This chapter provides some of the basic information would be required by someone looking to participate in the book project including information about the tools used to write the book, how to clone the Git repository, and how to execute the Maven build for this book. (MEBOOK-78 and MEBOOK-79)
  2. The book now contains instructions for people who want to subscribe to the book announcement mailing list. (MEBOOK-77)
  3. Updated the Book’s copyright to 2011. (MEBOOK-74 and MEBOOK-82)
  4. Update version of m2eclipse to 0.12.0. (MEBOOK-84)

Download the m2eclipse Book PDF by filling out the following form:

http://go.sonatype.com/forms/DevEclipseMaven

Read the m2eclipse Book online at

http://www.sonatype.com/books/m2eclipse-book/reference/

How to sign up for Sonatype's book announcements


January 14, 2011 By Tim O'Brien

Sonatype’s documentation effort is an important component of our outreach to the community. We maintain the canonical reference for Maven, Nexus, and m2eclipse, making it easier for people to enter into the Maven ecosystem. While we’ve heard a lot of positive feedback from people over the past few years, we’ve also heard a common complaint: “How do we keep up with changes to the book?”

Up until now, our answer has been to direct people to this blog. Since the blog contains business-focuses announcements, technical content, and other information it is difficult for people only interested in our books to pick out our announcements. To make it easier for people to get immediate notification of an upgrade or new edition of one of our books, we’ve created a Book Notification email list.

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Developing with Eclipse and Maven


December 28, 2010 By hloney

Sonatype books are the essential references for anyone working with Apache Maven, repository management, and integrating Maven with Eclipse.

Learn best practices, central concepts, and complete integration for Maven, Nexus Professional, and m2eclipse. Sonatype books offer the latest content for the software development tools you depend on.

The fourth book in our series of books available for downloading is Developing with Eclipse and Maven.

In this book you will learn how to fully integrate Maven with Eclipse, the world’s most widely used IDE for Java development.

Why Maven?

Maven is a software build tool, but it is much more than that. Maven is also a project management tool. It is designed to be flexible, easy, and intuitive – to be a more efficient and comprehensive build tool.

Why Eclipse?

Eclipse is the most widely used IDE for Java development today. Eclipse has a huge amount of plugins and an innumerable amount of organizations developing their own software on top of it. Quite simply, Eclipse is ubiquitous. The m2eclipse project provides full integration for Maven within the Eclipse IDE.

Maven by Example: Minor Update to Edition 0.5.2


December 9, 2010 By Tim O'Brien

Sonatype used to make a habit of posting updates for every single book update no matter how major of minor the update might be, and several of you use told us that you miss these posts. To this end, we’re happy to announce a minor update to Maven by Example.

Maven by Example is our introductory Maven book. The chapters in this book used to be the first half of Maven: The Definitive Guide, and once that book grew beyond 500-pages we decided to split it up into Maven by Example and Maven: The Complete Reference.

While this particular update is very minor, we’re busy laying the groundwork for a refresh of both of our Maven titles over the next few months.

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Download the Maven by Example book


November 3, 2010 By hloney

Sonatype books are the essential references for anyone working with Apache Maven, repository management, and integrating Maven with Eclipse.

Learn best practices, central concepts, and complete integration for Maven, Nexus Professional, and m2eclipse. Sonatype books offer the latest content for the software development tools you depend on.

The first book in our series of books available for downloading is Maven by Example.

Learn by doing — Maven by Example walks you through the key concepts of the world’s leading project management tool.  This book covers key concepts of Apache Maven by building a sample multi-module Maven project which involves an object model, a database, a set of services, and a web application.

To learn more about Sonatype books, or to download Maven by Example, click here.