Technology management with Maven

The last year, I was at Jazoon 08, and I forget to tell you how good some of their presentation about Maven were

Technology management with #Maven

The list of dependencies in a project of a certain size can be very long. New frameworks and libraries emerge at a fast pace, and they often affect that list. Developers and managers have to keep track of dependencies by maintaining dependency repositories, and they have to ensure that the accumulated knowledge is always available in an easily accessible and distributable form.Maven provides effective mechanisms to cope with the breadth of such dependencies. Also, there are tools that help manage artifact repositories in dealing with the information overload often associated with repositories. However, #Maven does not support the concept of technology lifecycle (not to be confused with the #Maven build lifecycle), which implies that it does not support technology lifecycle handling and storing of knowledge about the quality of a dependency. Read More Here