Maven does make the development process simpler in many ways, but it's a
mistake to think that every possible activity in that process will be
simpler. Obviously, the power Maven brings in terms of dependency
handling, standardized lifecycles and lifecycle vocabulary, etc. will be
completely irrelevant for this use case.
-john
Trevor Harmon wrote:
Hi all,
I'm an experienced Ant user but new to Maven, and I'm a little shocked
at how verbose Maven is, even compared to Ant, which is notorious for
its verbosity. For example, if I want to launch a Java application in
Ant, I do this:
<target name="run">
<java classname="foo.Bar" classpath="${my.classpath}">
<sysproperty key="mykey" value="myvalue"/>
<arg value="-h"/>
</java>
</target>
These six lines of Ant explode into 27 lines when ported to Maven:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>java</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<mainClass>foo.Bar</mainClass>
<arguments>
<argument>-h</argument>
</arguments>
<systemProperties>
<systemProperty>
<key>mykey</key>
<value>myvalue</value>
</systemProperty>
</systemProperties>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
Plus, when I want to run the Ant task, I only have to type this:
# ant run
But in Maven I have to type all this:
# mvn org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin:java
Everything about Maven seems more complex, more verbose, and more
difficult, at least for this example. Am I missing something? I thought
Maven was supposed to make things simpler...
Trevor
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