说明：  长期以来，开发人员一直在处理杂乱无章的应用程序项目，每个部分似乎都有自己的构建系统，而且没有关于项目状态信息的公共存储库。 现在有帮助。 期待已久的Maven官方文档就在这里。 由Maven的创建者Jason Van Zyl和他的团队在Maven的Sonatype撰写：权威指南清楚地解释了这个工具如何为您的软件开发项目带来秩序。
(For too long, developers have worked on disorganized application projects, where every part seemed to have its own build system, and no common repository existed for information about the state of the project. Now there's help. The long-awaited official documentation to Maven is here. Written by Maven creator Jason Van Zyl and his team at Sonatype, Maven: The Definitive Guide clearly explains how this tool can bring order to your software development projects.)