title: Maven Release Process - Best Practices
body: <p>Please help me understand on the below</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>What is the release process that is practiced in general(standard practice)?</li>
  <li>Can we do a release from branch?</li>
  <li>How can we merge the code from branch to trunk, if we have to do a release only from branch(is there any plugin for this)?</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Vijay</p>