Maven: The Complete Reference
Edition 0.8
Maven 2.2
Maven 3.0
Tim O’Brien
Jason van Zyl
Brian Fox
John Casey
Juven Xu
Thomas Locher
Manfred Moser
Contributing Authors:
Dan Fabulich
Eric Redmond
Bruce Snyder
Larry Shatzer
The Complete Reference
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