What's cooking in Maven?

In this high-paced talk, I’ll take my audience through at most four (depending on time constraints) exciting developments currently happening in the Apache Maven ecosystem. Even though Maven 3 may seem old, a lot is going on. In this session, attendees will get a sneak peek of the future of Maven!

It’s been over 10 years since Maven 3 saw the light, bringing initial multi-module support. Later releases brought a lot of improvements, bug fixes, and of course coloured output.

But the Maven community hasn’t been resting on their laurels. A lot of effort has gone into the future of Maven. You may have heard about Maven 4, Maven Wrapper, or Maven Daemon. Why should you care? And how will it change the way you use Maven? I will show you by using the latest snapshot builds of Maven - time will tell if that’s a brave or a stupid idea…

Join me to find out what the future of Maven has for you!

I have no specific technical requirements.

Being an active committer to Apache Maven myself, I know what is currently under development, or even done and dusted. I’ll demo each of them (here be dragons: some features are under active development!), some of which I have developed myself. It doesn’t matter if the demos will succeed or not. Either way, I’ll explain clearly what each feature means for “regular” end users of Apache Maven, and when they can expect them to land on their machines.