Read a lot and read a bit more.. until you think you will never understand what this thing is supposed to help you with..
Then you discover the dependency management, discover how you can get minions aka. plug-ins to do your dirty work, how you can control the properties values from settings.xml and how you can change your profile to suit building artifact/war/jar for different environment.
Then you want more.. mm..what is up with this repository management??
