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Maven

Category
Developer tools
Latest
3.10.0
Released
Oct 1, 2026
Docs outline
13 sections

Official docs outline

maven.apache.org
  1. Getting started

    Maven five-minute tutorial and project layout.

  2. Build lifecycle

    Default, clean and site lifecycles; phases and goals.

  3. The POM

    Coordinates, packaging, properties and inheritance.

  4. Dependency mechanism

    Transitive dependencies, scopes, exclusions, management.

  5. Repositories

    Local, central and remote repositories.

  6. Plugins

    Plugins and goals, binding goals to phases and configuring plugin parameters.

  7. Profiles

    Build profiles and activation by property, JDK or OS for environment-specific builds.

  8. Multi-module projects

    Multi-module projects with aggregation, inheritance and the reactor build order.

  9. Settings and mirrors

    settings.xml, servers and mirrors.

  10. Toolchains

    Toolchains that select the JDK used by plugins independent of the one running Maven.

  11. Deploying and releasing

    Deploying artifacts to repositories and releasing, including the Central upload requirements.

  12. Archetypes

    Archetypes that generate new projects from templates.

  13. Best practices

    Development conventions and contribution.

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Versions and support

6 release lines
LineReleasedLatestSupport
3.10 Sep 27, 2026 3.10.0 Supported
3.9 Jan 31, 2023 3.9.16 Supported
3.8 Mar 30, 2021 3.8.9 Ended Jun 14, 2025
3.6 Oct 24, 2018 3.6.3 Ended Mar 30, 2021
3.5 Apr 3, 2017 3.5.4 Ended Oct 24, 2018
3.3 Mar 13, 2015 3.3.9 Ended Apr 3, 2017

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