This tag is for Maven 1 related questions. Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information.
As explained in the What is Maven? page, Maven 1.x originated in 2003 inside the Jakarta Turbine as an attempt to simplify the Ant builds of Apache projects and their maintenance:
Maven was originally started as an attempt to simplify the build processes in the Jakarta Turbine project. There were several projects each with their own Ant build files that were all slightly different and JARs were checked into CVS. We wanted a standard way to build the projects, a clear definition of what the project consisted of, an easy way to publish project information and a way to share JARs across several projects.
What resulted is a tool that can now be used for building and managing any Java-based project. We hope that we have created something that will make the day-to-day work of Java developers easier and generally help with the comprehension of any Java-based project.
As of today, Maven 1.x is no longer developed. Maven 1 has been End Of Live
It has been replaced by Maven 2.x/3.x which is a complete rewrite of the original Maven application.
The latest version of Maven is the 3.x tree.
See maven for more information.
