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  <properties>
    <title>Introduction</title>
    <author email="hboutemy_AT_apache_DOT_org">Hervé Boutemy</author>
  </properties>

  <body>

    <section name="Apache Maven 3.x">

      <p>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
    <a href="./maven-model/maven.html">the <code>pom.xml</code> declarative file</a>. Maven can be extended by
    <a href="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/">plugins</a> to utilise a
    number of other development tools for reporting or the build
    process.</p>

      <p>
        <img src="images/maven-deps.png" width="784" height="595" border="0" usemap="#Maven_dependencies" />
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    </section>

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