I have used for the past 7 years and love it.
It does take a bit of getting used to but once you have your projects
and Maven repo set up, it is really smooth.
New people only have to worry about code and the policy that you follow
for releases and SNAPSHOTs.
Dependencies, builds, project structure, deployment are all pre-defined
when they check-out a project.
They do not have to worry about the build process, it is all in the POM
and if they know Maven, it is the same as every other project that they
have worked on.
It encourages a rigorous and consistent development process.
It also makes it easy to share libraries and I don't see how the
framework could be popular on its own, if it was not available in Maven
Central as a Maven artifact.
Most people get into trouble trying to do crazy things like using Maven
as a deployment tool.
It is good at what it does and there are other tools - installers - that
are better at packaging up things for deployment.
We use it exclusively from within Eclipse/STS so we have nice GUI tools
for managing dependencies and triggering builds and tests.
We use a small subset of the plug-ins and have never had the need to
build a custom plug-in.
When I was young with no grey hair, I got used to building with Ant and
still love it for system administration scripts
I don't like it as a build tool.
I can see its value as part of creating the deployment configurations
that get fed into an installer to support multiple deployment packages
(containers, operating systems, with/ without demo data, etc.) and
post-installation scripts to load demo data or set up the run-time
configuration (container configuration, server startup, etc.).
Ron
On 26/02/2015 8:54 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
In any ways, I'm all against Maven
Jacques
Le 26/02/2015 14:48, Ron Wheeler a écrit :
Getting into multiple Maven projects for development, unit testing
and delivery of components would make the project easier to learn and
customize.
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President
Artifact Software Inc
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skype: ronaldmwheeler
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