On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM Sergey Chernov <[email protected]> wrote:
>

> Google and Meta are not relevant examples, as these companies have their
> own build tooling (Bazel/Blaze, Buck/Buck2, immense monorepos etc) which is
> not common.

Google is a huge Java shop, with thousands of active Java developers,
many of whom do use Maven. I was one of them, and at one point they
paid me and a team of developers fulltime to make their Maven builds
work better. They also use gradle, occasionally bazel, and most often
blaze. Maven is probably the number 2 build tool for Java code at
Google, after blaze. Meta isn't as big a Java shop as Google, but they
also use Maven; e.g. on the Presto project.

The numbers you cite from JetBrains show only 67% of developers use
SpringBoot. That means a third aren't using SpringBoot, and probably
more than half of all active projects (i.e. not just web framework
based projects) aren't using SpringBoot at all.

Maven should support SpringBoot, but neither require nor assume it.
Maven is for all kinds of Java projects, not just for web projects and
certainly not just for SpringBoot.

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold
[email protected]

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