All development organizations eventually converge on a set of tools to reduce costs, lower onboarding time, and leverage knowledge in strong communities to create standard processes. To this end we see in many organizations the emergence of a standard development stack consisting of Maven, M2Eclipse, Nexus & Hudson. In this talk, Brian Fox, PMC Chair of the Apache Maven project, will discuss the future of Maven and specifically Maven 3.x, the rapidly approaching M2Eclipse 1.0 release, the upcoming Nexus 1.4 release, and changes that have been made to Hudson to provide better interoperability with Maven. Sonatype itself leverages this stack on a daily basis and this discussion will focus not only on the tools individually, but how they can work together to create a best practices approach to building and delivering your software in your organization.

Speaker

Brian Fox has over a decade of experience as an enterprise software development manager and senior software engineer. Brian comes to Sonatype from public health software solutions company Scientific Technologies Corporation, where he concurrently held several positions including Technical Product Manager, setting product direction and determining technical implementation strategy, and Configuration Manager, leading a build team and converting Scientific Technology's build system to Maven 2 from ANT. Previously Brian led a remote engineering group as Senior Software Engineer/Technical Lead for Lucent Technologies and has years of experience building high availability systems for telecommunication applications.

Fluent in Java, .NET, C/C++/C#, Perl, HTML, and SOAP, among others, Brian's open source contributions include acting as the primary developer for several Maven plugins and release manager for several Maven core releases, the project lead for tag library application Cewolf, and an Apache.org committer. Brian is an accomplished speaker and joint author of several papers on syndromic surveillance.

Brian has a B.S. in Computer Science from Daniel Webster College.