I wrote this up for the NetRexx mailing list, but it’s a good basics article for anyone wanting to get a quick glance at Maven‘s operations. I’m not [intlink id=”165″ type=”post”]trying to come up with a better Maven[/intlink], I’m just giving a quick description. Read the rest of this entry »
Continuing the Java build systems discussion, today I want to focus on Maven, what it does well and what it does that frustrates. We’ll get a little taste of the minimum expectations for a new build system as well. Note: this page may be subject to edits, as I come across more pros & cons of Maven.
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Two recent posts on the java-weblog circuit spurred me to motion:
Maven Adoption Curve (Alex Miller, coworker at MetaMatrix)
Maven and Ivy (Ryan Senior, coworker at BJC)
I was trying to think of the ideal build system. I won’t pretend that I’m going to get there in this post. Instead, I’ll enumerate what we do every day and what we need from a build system so as to start thinking about the ideal system.
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