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    <title>Introduction</title>
    <author email="hboutemy_AT_apache_DOT_org">Hervé Boutemy</author>
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    <section name="Apache Maven 4.x">

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

      <p>Learn more about <a href="configuring.html">configuring Maven</a> and <a href="maven-configuration.html">Maven's configuration</a>.</p>

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