I am by no means a Maven expert, but my understanding is it came out of Apache in order to help manage dependencies between different projects which had gotten fiendishly complicated to do with Ant over time.
It helps with the entire lifecycle of building, packaging, testing, installing, deploying, etc. and is heavily influenced by the idea of "convention over configuration" - i.e. if you do things in a standard way, you should have to write very little in the way of scripts (or xml configuration files). A lot of people in the Java world have been moving to Maven for a while, and my view is that the same issues will soon come up in the Flex world once we are all using a lot of different components in our apps and have to worry about dependencies and versioning and build and deployment processes. It does not have an IDE, but there is a way to integrate it with eclipse (which I haven't tried myself). -Brian ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of André Rodrigues Pena Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 5:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Re : [flexcoders] Re: Building flex apps with Maven 2? What does Maven offer to a Flex 2 developer? does it have a IDE with a publishing tool? On 5/10/07, Christian Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: Oh and thanks! But we haven't collaborated much yet. ;) We're just checking it all out at this point. Thank us when it's all shipping with the latest. Christian. > On May 10, 2007, at 3:02 PM, Sterling, Brian wrote: > >> You guys are awesome! >> >> >> >> I feel little tears of joy coming to my eyes when I think about >> this beautiful collaboration! >> >> christian gruber + [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:cgruber%40israfil.net> + bus 905.640.1119 + mob 416.998.6023 process coach and architect + ISRÁFÍL CONSULTING SERVICES -- André Rodrigues Pena LOCUS www.locus.com.br <http://www.locus.com.br> Blog www.techbreak.org <http://www.techbreak.org>
