The Apache Maven project management framework provides Sakai with "a set of build standards, artifact repository model and a software engine that manages and describes projects" (Better Builds, p. 22). As part of the installation process you will use Maven as a build tool in order to compile, test and deploy Sakai to a servlet container such as Apache Tomcat.
Maven 2.2.1 is the minimum version required for performing Sakai 2.7 builds.
Maven 3.0 is currently NOT compatible with Sakai 2.7.
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