Maven is an OpenSource project born in the jakarta turbine context.
It is a Java project management and project comprehension tool. Maven is based on the concept of a project object model (POM) in that all the artifacts produced by Maven are a result of consulting a well defined model for your project. Builds, documentation, source metrics, and source cross-references are all controlled by your POM.
cited from http://maven.apache.org/
Plugins can be found under http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/index.html
additional Plugin for CanooWebTest: http://maven-plugins.sourceforge.net/webtest/
see also ApacheMaven