Here’s a recorded webinar that I did for my company called “Apache Maven for Late Adopters". It focuses primarily on the challenge of adopting Maven in an organizations that have existing projects in place. Registration is required but it’s free.
http://www.webagesolutions.com/webinars/registration.html?ApacheMavenLateAdopters <http://www.webagesolutions.com/webinars/registration.html?ApacheMavenLateAdopters> Cheers, Greg Trasuk. > On Jul 14, 2015, at 8:22 AM, Ron Wheeler <rwhee...@artifact-software.com> > wrote: > > Very good suggestions. > Perhaps Murthy should share a bit about the audience (Maven users who want to > improve their understanding or Ant users who are interested in changing) and > what he wants them to know at the end of the presentation. > Is it a technical talk about the way Maven works or a "marketing" talk about > the benefits of using Maven and how it changes the development environment > and improves software quality? > > Ron > > On 14/07/2015 2:04 AM, Sander Verhagen wrote: >> Hi Murthy, >> >> >> I think it's important that you talk about things that you're comfortable >> with yourself. The fact that you're asking for resources in the way you do >> sounds like you're being sent on a quest in partly unknown territory, which >> may not be a great starting point to present (but I might have gotten the >> wrong impression here entirely, sorry if so). If you are still learning >> Maven while doing a major conversion from Ant, or you are an expert Maven >> user but you're the only one in your group, it may be worthwhile to get some >> expert consultancy so that you can adopt some best practices and to help you >> look good as the person driving this project. >> >> When I guided my company from Ant to Maven, I did a lot of separate >> presentations, some of these were specific for our situation, some of these >> were generically about Maven. In the generic presentations I covered >> subjects like this: >> >> Build >> Lifecycle >> Goals >> Plugins >> Dependency management >> Artifacts >> Dependencies >> Scopes >> Conflicts >> Repositories >> Versioning >> Modules >> Profiles >> >> I would like to particularly call out "lifecycle" and "goals", since these >> concepts are so very basic to Maven that they're easily overlooked, but they >> are oh-so fundamental and at the same time so fundamentally different than >> Ant. And it's probably also these concepts that make Maven so much more than >> just "an Ant that does dependency management". >> >> Good luck with your presentation! >> >> Feel free to ask for more information! >> >> Best regards, Sander. >> >> P.S.: what's up with your footer? >> >> >> >> Sander Verhagen >> [ san...@sanderverhagen.net ] >> >> NOTICE: my e-mail address has changed. Please remove verha...@sander.com now >> and start using san...@sanderverhagen.net from now on. Please update your >> address book. Thank you! >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Gandikota, Murthy [mailto:mgandik...@westechmed.com] >>> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 17:59 >>> To: Maven Users List >>> Subject: Need Help of Maveners to prepare for a talk on Maven >>> >>> Hi All >>> I am asked by my org/boss to talk about my maven exploits for about half an >>> hour in front of our group. Having sought your help, earlier, for a pathing >>> jar, I am ready to talk about it. However, it involves a lot of ant, as I >>> don't >>> know how to do the same (copying files, generating manifest, etc.) in >>> Maven. Can you help me figure out what other topics can be general >>> enough for Maveners? I am thinking of Maven plugins, but don't know any >>> resources. I'd appreciate if you can kindly help me figure this out. >>> >>> Thanks in anticipation. >>> B�KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK >>> KKKKKKKKKKKKKCB�� [��X��ܚX�KK[XZ[ >>> >>> � \�\��][��X��ܚX�PX]�[��\X�K�ܙ�B��܈Y][ۘ[��[X[� �K[XZ[ >>> >>> � \�\��Z[ X]�[��\X�K�ܙ�B >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > > -- > Ron Wheeler > President > Artifact Software Inc > email: rwhee...@artifact-software.com > skype: ronaldmwheeler > phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org >
