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A good new is that Maven 1.0.2 is in the way in less than 24 hours. Thank to all those guys developing this great tool. And of course thanks to all the contributors and users that help improving it.

The maven team is pleased to announce the Maven AspectJ Plugin 3.2 release!

The main change is the ability of weaving only a subset of aspects.

The maven team is pleased to announce the Maven AspectJ Plugin 3.2 release!
http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/aspectj/

Changes in this version include:

  New Features:
o Added maven.aspectj.argfiles and maven.aspectj.weaveAspectSources properties.
  Issue: MPASPECTJ-12. Thanks to Mark Proctor.
o Added maven.aspectj.noweave and maven.aspectj.lint properties. Issue:
  MPASPECTJ-13.

  Fixed bugs:
o Added maven.aspectj.source and maven.aspectj.time properties that where
  incorrectly removed.

To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line:

maven plugin:download -DgroupId=maven -DartifactId=maven-aspectj-plugin -Dversion=3.2

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-aspectj-plugin-3.2.jar

Have fun!
-The maven team

After a long time from 1.0, the 1.0.1 release is out!.

The maven team is pleased to announce the Maven 1.0.1 release!

Download

This release contains bugfixes since the Maven 1.0 release. In addition, all of
the latest stable plugin releases are included, which include both bugfixes and
some new features.

We recommend that all users upgrade to this release, in particular those using
pre-1.0 betas or release candidates.

Maven is a project management and project comprehension tool. Maven is based
on the concept of a project object model: builds, documentation creation, site
publication, and distribution publication are all controlled from the project
object model. Maven also provides tools to create source metrics, change logs
based directly on source repository, and source cross-references.



Changes in this version can be found here:
Changes

Please note that each plugin has its own changes report - please refer to the plugins
site to see the plugin you are interested in.

Have fun!
-The Apache Maven Team

Another project I have just migrated to Maven is the Acegi Security System for Spring. The folder layout was changed (retaining CVS history) to use Maven suggestions, although it’s not needed. The core, subprojects, samples and docs (including docbook generation) were migrated from ant.

Are you using multiproject and want to use common files in all your subprojects?

Then you can define a variable “rootdir” pointing to the dir where common files are stored, so they can be refered as ${rootdir}/filename, both in your properties (project.properties, build.properties) and project.xml files.

To do so you just need to create a maven.xml in the top level project (supposing you have a LICENSE.txt in the top level dir, you can use any other file). This var will point to the same dir from every subproject.

<project
   xmlns:j="jelly:core"
   xmlns:ant="jelly:ant"
   xmlns:util="jelly:util"
   xmlns:maven="jelly:maven">

    <!-- =========== Set root dir =========== -->

    <j:set var="rootdir">${basedir}</j:set>

    <j:while test="${true}">
        <util:available file="${rootdir}/LICENSE.txt">
            <j:break/>
        </util:available>
        <j:set var="rootdir">${rootdir}/..</j:set>
    </j:while>

    <ant:dirname property="rootdirname" file="${rootdir}/project.xml"/>
    <j:set var="rootdir">${rootdirname}</j:set>
    <echo>Using root dir: ${rootdir}</echo>

</project>

You’d like to set some properties using this new var

# License plugin settings
maven.license.licenseFile=${rootdir}/LICENSE.txt

# multiproject
maven.multiproject.basedir=${rootdir}