Apache Maven 3 Cookbook

3
Agile Team
Collaboration
In this chapter, we will cover:
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Creating centralized remote repositories
Performing continuous integration with Hudson
Integrating source code management
Team integration with Apache Maven
Implementing environment integration
Distributed development
Working in offline mode
This chapter covers techniques such as distributed development, continuous integration,
environment integration, centralized remote repositories implementation, and so on. One
thing common to the recipes covered here is that they are context sensitive and cater to
situations that arise in medium to large software development teams.
This is a chapter for Agile teams, but can be useful for any team, regardless of the
methodologies followed. However, it is recommended that one is familiar with practices
that are followed by Agile teams because for many situations these practices are ideal.
A good example of this is the practice of pair programming. While it is an extremely effective
practice for any team, in the context of a distributed team, pair programming becomes critical
and its success can have a direct impact on the health of the team and the project.
Some of these techniques are well documented and have been popularized by software
engineering methodologies such as Extreme Programming. The recipes here offer glimpses
at how these can be implemented using Maven in situations, where one is dealing with Agile,
distributed and cross functional teams.