Using Maven for building and running a Spring-WS project

Recent modern software development, based on enterprise-grade open source technologies, requires a new generation of build and project management tools. Such tools can make a standard way for building, managing, and deploying small scale to large scale applications.

Maven, hosted by the Apache Software Foundation, is a project management and automated build and deploy tool. Maven is built upon Ant's features and adds several features such as feature dependency and project management. Maven was initially used for Java programming, but it can also be used to build and manage projects written in other programming languages. In recent years, Maven has been used to automate the process of building, managing, and testing the deployments of major open source projects.