Last read book: Mastering Apache Maven 3

Just have finished reading Mastering Apache Maven 3.
Although this is a step by step guide and contains a lot of examples this book is more a reference guide.


The most valuable part of it is the last chapter about best practices.
The structure of the book gives you a presentation about:

1. maven quick start
2. pom
3. configuration
4. build lifecycles
5. plugins
6. assemblies
7. archetypes
8. repository management
9. best practices

Quick start chapter is good and really quick. The next chapters gives you a very detailed information about maven counterparts.

The repository management chapter gives an overview of Nexus OSS repository. It contains screenshots of Nexus OSS and description.

What I dislike about the book is that is contains a lot of maven xml that stay away your attention from the main points.
If you have a lot of time you can read this book. If you need to make your job on time you should try to find another source of information.