Apache Maven – Automation Build tool

Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM),
Maven can manage a project’s build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information.

Maven is a build automation tool used primarily for Java projects. Maven helps in two aspects of building software:
First, it describes how software is built, and second, it describes its dependencies.

Maven can be used to build and manage projects written in C#, Ruby, Scala, and other languages.
The Maven project is hosted by the Apache Software Foundation, where it was formerly part of the Jakarta Project.

Maven’s Objectives :-
Maven’s primary goal is to allow a developer to comprehend the complete state of a development effort in the shortest period of time. In order to attain this goal there are several areas of concern that Maven attempts to deal with:

-Making the build process easy
-Providing a uniform build system
-Providing quality project information
-Providing guidelines for best practices development
-Allowing transparent migration to new features

It allows Maven to compile projects from within the IDE, and also to set the classpath for code completion, highlighting compiler errors, etc.
Following IDEs supports development with Maven:

Eclipse,NetBeans,IntelliJ IDEA,JBuilder,JDeveloper 11.1, MyEclipse