Maven book

To help me in getting to grips with Maven (see #1, #2), I bought a copy of O'Reilly's Maven: A Developer's Notebook (it shouldn't have an apostrophe in the name, but that's modern (mis-)spelling for you). I like this new developers notebook series from O'Reilly. We've been through years of 400-500 page IT books that are little more than on-line reference documentation printed out on paper. We all knew that the problem wasn't finding the reference information, it was finding how to get started.

These new O'Reilly books cut straight to the chase. They give short, practical lessons on how to do the most important things. After that, you can search the on-line reference documentation for yourself. Finally, a triumph of common sense over word count.

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