On 27 Jul 2009, at 21:56, Stephen Gregory wrote:
> I just thought I'd throw this out there:
> If you want to see a great reason to use Maven, try making a Hudson
> plugin. http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Plugin+tutorial
> Everything you need (dependencies, testing, sample code) is downloaded
> automatically and it just works.

Hudson tends to work well with maven projects in general.

> In my personal experience the tooling (specifically IDE integration)
> just recently got to the point where I can start using Maven for
> everything (thanks to Q4E now Eclipse IAM).  Having a local proxy (I
> use Archiva) makes a huge difference for stability. Now the Maven
> pom.xml is now more of a lingua franca .project (or netbeans /
> intellij equivelant) than just a build system.

I'll second that.  m2eclipse 0.9.9 got a lot more usable for me.  And  
running nexus for a local proxy is a complete cinch.  I've got it set  
up locally on my laptop, which is great for working away from wifi.

The native maven support in NetBeans 6.7 is good, but it still has one  
drawback relative to m2eclipse.  It doesn't recognise that a  
dependency is already in the workspace, so you have to Build your  
dependency first.

-Dom

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