Maven的地位和影响力

clipped from www.ddj.com The Maven central repository continues to grow in value to Java community. We are now up to 55,579 artifacts from over 2000 projects, which means that anyone using Maven has convenient access to most of the libraries and components they need, and there are about 100 million hits to the repository per month. All artifacts in the Maven central repository are metadata-rich: for each artifact there is information on the originating project including the developers, the contributors, where you can find the source for the project, plus information on whether that artifact is related to other open source projects. There really is a vast store of untapped project information that is just starting to be utilized by tools like Nexus, Sonatype's Maven repository manager, which allows you to fully control the use of your own internal Maven repositories within your organization.