Acknowledgements

Vincent Massol

I’m very lucky to have been able to write this book with the core Maven team. They are all great developers and working with them on Maven since 2002 has been an endless source of discoveries and enlightening. Jason van Zyl and I were initially supposed to write half of the book but we soon realized that there was a substantial amount of work to be done on the code to stabilize Maven and the plugins before we could write about it. This is when Brett Porter, Carlos Sanchez and John D. Casey stepped up to the plate and jumped on board to help us. They ended up writing a big portion of the book and improving the overall book’s quality by several folds. Thank you guys! We owe you. I’d like to thank Jason of course who’s guided Maven all those years and who’s had the foresight and courage to rewrite Maven 2 from scratch, taking into account all learnings from the past.
A special thank goes to Jesse McConnell who’s helped me a lot to write the J2EE chapter and especially the Web Services part. Thanks also to all our reviewers who provided great feedback and fixed our errors. They are all part of the vibrant Maven community whether as committers or contributors. In no special order, I’d like to thank Stephane Nicoll, Napoleon Esmundo C. Ramirez, Felipe Leme, Jerome Lacoste, Bill Dudney and David Blevins.
A big thank you to Exist Global which sponsored this book and a company I admire for really understanding open source. Thanks to Winston Damarillo and Gordon King for making this book possible and thanks to Natalie Burdick for driving it relentlessly to completion, which is not a small feat when you have to manage a bunch of hardcore open source developers who continually lapse into coding when they should be writing instead! Delivering a quality book would not have been possible without the professional help of Lisa Malgeri and Elena Renard who did all layouts, copy editing and more generally transformed our technical prose into proper and readable English. Thank you to Joakim Erdfelt for the graphical images in our Figures.

A huge thank to Pivolis for allowing me to work part time on the book even though the return on investment was far from being guaranteed! Once more Francois Hisquin and Jean-Yves Grisi have proved that they have their employees’ satisfaction at heart.

Last but not least, all my love goes to my wife Marie-Albane and my 3 young kids who kept loving me unfalteringly even though I spent a good portion of our play-time to write this book.

Brett Porter

I’d like to start by thanking everyone who has been involved in the Maven community over the years, for sticking with it through some of the early development and for holding the development team to a higher standard. Maven is the cumulative work of nearly 40 committers and an even larger number of contributors who’ve taken the time to give feedback, contribute ideas, answer questions, test features, and submit fixes.

Jason van Zyl deserves particular credit and has my constant admiration for having the foresight to start the project and for continuing to stick unwaveringly to his vision throughout its development.

I’d also like to thank Paul Russell and the development team during my time at Fairfax Digital, for trusting my judgment to use Maven on our projects, and without whom I would never have been able to get involved in the project in the first place. Both I and the Maven project owe you all a debt of gratitude.

I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to finally write a book about Maven, and to do so with such a number of my talented friends and colleagues. To the authors Jason, Vincent, John and Carlos – congratulations on a job well done. To Natalie Burdick, for her dedication to see this through, despite having all of the least enjoyable tasks of keeping the development on track, doing additional copy editing and organizing its release. To Lisa Malgeri and Elena Renard, for their copy editing, formatting and development of the book’s template, whose work made this book as professional and polished as it is.

I’m very thankful to the team at Exist Global for not only sponsoring the development of the book and making it available free of charge, but for the opportunity to work in such a tremendous environment. It is a rare thing to be able to work with such a friendly group of people that are among the brightest in their field, doing what you enjoy and being able to see your our own personal vision realized.

Personally, I’d like to say how much I appreciate all of my family, friends, and those of St Paul’s Anglican church for all of their care, support, help and encouragement in everything that I do.

My most heartfelt thanks and all of my love go to my wife Laura, for loving me as I am despite all my flaws, for her great patience and sacrifice in allowing me to work at all hours from home, and for leaving her native Michigan to live in a bizarre foreign land. I continue to hope that it was for me and not just because of the warmer climate.

Carlos Sanchez

I would like to thank professor Fernando Bellas for encouraging my curiosity about the open source world, and the teammates during my time at Softgal, for accepting my crazy ideas about open source.
Also, I’d like to thank my family for their continuous support, especially my parents and my brother for helping me whenever I needed. Thanks also to all the people in Galicia for that delicious food I miss so much when traveling around the world.

Vincent, Jason, John, Brett and Carlos

Many thanks to Jesse McConnell for his contributions to the book. It is much appreciated.

All of us would like to thank Lisa Malgeri, Elena Renard and Joakim Erdfelt for their many contributions to the book.

Finally, we would like to thank all the reviewers who greatly enhanced the content and quality of this book: Natalie Burdick, Stephane Nicoll, Napoleon Esmundo C. Ramirez, Felipe Leme, Jerome Lacoste, Bill Dudney, David Blevins, Lester Ecarma, Ruel Loehr, Mark Hobson, Tim O’Brien, Chris Berry, Abel Rodriguez, Fabrice Bellingard, Allan Ramirez, Emmanuel Venisse and John Tolentino.