I'm tasked with getting a development environment set up for a new program at work. The lead has chosen Eclipse as the IDE for its OSGi support and Maven as the build utility.

I've struggled through getting Maven integrated with Eclipse and I'm grudgingly declaring success and moving forward.

My question: is there any sort of guide to getting started with Maven? I've found boatloads of documentation, most all of it very, very detailed and simultaneously unhelpful. I downloaded a 300+ page book that goes into excruciating detail about POMs, but doesn't tell you how to initialize a project from existing source.

Hopefully, this question will result in a pointer to something I missed or a collection of links for those who follow me.