Maven
1. 'Convention Over Configuration', I like it. pom.xml - lifecycle > mvn install > mvn site 2-- view a plugin information. Exp., the following command line is what the plugin "help" describes. > mvn help:describe -Dplugin=help -Dfull 3-- Create a simple project and a directory "demo1" including a pom.xml and other directory(src ). > mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=my.demo01 -DartifactId=demo1 -DpackageName=org.demo01.pge 4 > mvn install equity > mvn resource:resource compiler:compile resources:testResources compiler:testCompile surefire:test jar:jar 5 Repository is at c:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\.m2\repository or c:\Users\USERNAME\.m2\respository h t t p: / / maven. apache. org / mail-lists . h t m l How to get source codes: mvn dependency:sources In eclipse, project-> run as -> maven build... ，type "dependency:sources" in goal 6 mvn install:install-file -Dfile="parameters" -Dg...