Maven is something of a chameleon; you can pick and choose the features you want to take advantage of. Some open source projects may value the ability to list developers and contributors, generate clean project documentation, and manage releases automatically using the Maven Release plugin. On the other hand, someone working in a corporate environment on a small team might not be interested in the distribution management capabilities of Maven nor the ability to list developers. The remainder of this chapter is going to discuss features of the POM in isolation. Instead of bombarding you with a 10-page listing of a set of related POMs, we’re going to focus on creating a good reference for specific sections of the POM. In this chapter, we discuss relationships between POMs, but we don’t illustrate such a project here.