Maven3 with founder Jason van Zyl

Abstract

We're very excited to announce that Belgian Java and Eclipse User Group are joining forces to organize this unique Maven3 evening session together with the founder of Maven, Jason van Zyl!

Maven 3.0 will be the version Maven for the people. The Maven team has gone to the ends of the earth to ensure backward compatibility, improve usability, increase performance, allow safe embedding, and pave the way for implement many highly demanded features.

This informal session will of course cover Maven3, the Eclipse integration and probably also Nexus

Speaker

Jason is the founder of the Apache Maven project, the Plexus IoC framework, and the Apache Velocity project. Jason currently serves on the Apache Maven Project Management Committee. He has been involved with the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) for seven years, helped to found Codehaus, a well respected incubation facility for open source community projects, and is a frequent speaker at many major software conferences, including JavaOne, EclipseCon, EmergingTech, and ApacheCon.

Jason van Zyl, CTO of Sonatype, has over ten years of enterprise software development experience. He founded Periapt, Inc., a company that provided software infrastructure development services to Fortune 500 companies such as Toyota Corp., Bank of America, and Coca-Cola Co. Previous to Periapt, he worked as a Technology Architect at Compusense, a world leader in sensory analysis and data research.

Date & Location

• May 25th from 19h00 til 21h00 in Antwerp

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