Maven archetypes can be used to create a skeleton project, complete with a pom with necessary dependencies and sample code, to get people started on building projects using Infinispan.

http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-archetypes.html
http://maven.apache.org/archetype/maven-archetype-plugin/

The archetype could contain samples for a local, replicated and distributed grid, using TCP, UDP and an EC2-tuned transport.

Perhaps even make use of CDI to inject pre-defined caches into user code.