Apache Maven Dependency Management

A very easy-to-understand and follow good for introducing Maven:

http://www.amazon.com/Apache-Maven-Dependency-Management-Jonathan/dp/1783283017

While most of the stuffs are basic, I get away with:

1. how to analyze dependency in Maven
2. how to create and use profile
3. how to determine which transitive dependency being taken in the project and how to exclude some of them
4. how to create a release and how to distribute maven dependency
5. how include include non-Maven standard library as dependency in a Maven project
6. how to migrate from Ant project to Maven project
7. the various maven-plugins such as exec-maven-plugin, maven-assembly-plugin, maven-install-plugin, maven-release-plugin, maven-dependency-plugin, maven-compiler-plugin.
8. What is dependency scope and how / when to use them.