This document is an attempt at providing a solid Table of Contents for the Maven 2 documentation. Currently the docs are sub-par and either answer specific questions without explaining the concepts, or explain the concepts too generically without allowing users to get things done. A good set of documentation must find a good middle ground and work with the user from start (newbie) to finish (Maven maven).

• Getting started
• Concepts
• The repository

User Documentation

Maven Concepts

• Introduction
• Project descriptor
• Dependencies
• Directory convention
• Life cycle
• Plugins
• Artifacts and packagings
• Repositories
  • Repository Metadata
• Archetypes
• Profiles

Basic documentation

Getting started

Using Maven

• Command Line Options

Testing

• Unit testing
• Integration testing

List of plugins

Archetypes

• Using a project archetype
• Creating an archetype

List of plugins

List of archetypes

Site

Quality reports

Documentation reports

Information reports

Maven in an IDE

Misc.

Intermediate documentation

Generating sources

Packagings

Deployments

Configuring Maven

The user settings

Misc.

Advanced documentation

Associated artifacts

Maven extension development

Alternative languages

Continuous integration

Maven tools

Misc.

Developer Documentation

• Newbie Developer's FAQ
• Watch Maven working (Source Code walk-through)

References

Complete plugin index
Complete guide index
Project descriptor reference
User Settings reference