2001 Apache Maven Maven is a project development management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model: builds, dependency management, documentation creation, site publication, and distribution publication are all controlled from the declarative file. Maven can be extended by plugins to utilise a number of other development tools for reporting or the build process. Maven is a project development management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model: builds, dependency management, documentation creation, site publication, and distribution publication are all controlled from the declarative file. Maven can be extended by plugins to utilise a number of other development tools for reporting or the build process. Java Latest stable release 2007-11-27 2.0.8 Apache Maven 2.0.7 2007-06-21 2.0.7 Apache Maven 2.0.6 2007-04-01 2.0.6 Apache Maven 2.0.5 2007-02-14 2.0.5 Jason van Zyl Brett Porter Emmanuel Venisse Kenney Westerhof Stephane Nicoll Vincent Massol Fabrizio Giustina Edwin Punzalan Mike Perham John Casey Trygve Laugstol Vincent Siveton Carlos Sanchez Dennis Lundberg