Packt publishing was so kind to give me an e-book version of their book Apache Maven Cookbook. The book has 9 Chapters and over 200 pages.
As the name suggest, there some receipt for some common problems. For example when you want to start a new maven project with flex, hibernate, integrate hudson or create your own maven remote repository.

When you are new to maven and want a broad overview how you can use maven in different setups then this book is just right for you. This book is ideal addition for beginners which want to get started with maven very quickly. But when you want a detailed overview about the internals of maven this is not the right book for you.

Personally for me the interesting part was the chapter Extending Apache Maven. In this chapter it’s explained how you can easily write a apache maven plugin (MOJO).

Conclusion

So if you are new to maven and want a broad overview then this book is just right for you. It will give you in a quick way answers to common problems and how to solve them.

If you have already experience with maven and use it with a SCM and CI server like Hudson, then this book is definitively not for you.

Should I buy the book?

It depends how experienced you are with maven? But to be honestly some years earlier this book would be great to save us some time for our project setup. It’s also a good addition to the other packt publishing book Apache Maven 2 Effective Implementation.