Hadoop. Ant - Welcome. What is Maven? Introduction Maven, a Yiddish word meaning accumulator of knowledge, was originally started as an attempt to simplify the build processes in the Jakarta Turbine project. There were several projects each with their own Ant build files that were all slightly different and JARs were checked into CVS. We wanted a standard way to build the projects, a clear definition of what the project consisted of, an easy way to publish project information and a way to share JARs across several projects.
The result is a tool that can now be used for building and managing any Java-based project. Maven Ant plugin - Intro. OODT. Award-winning software birthed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in operations cataloging pictures of Mars and helping to detect cancer, is now free and open source software for your project—be it science or otherwise. What is Object Oriented Data Technology? Object Oriented Data Technology, or OODT, develops and promotes science data management and archiving systems that span scientific disciplines and enable interoperability among data agnostic systems in the fields of astrophysics, planetary, space science data systems, open source web analytics, etc.