I believe there are some blog posts over at Soantype's blog about success stories migrating to Maven. Have a look there! http://blogs.sonatype.com
/Anders On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 18:35, Ron Wheeler <rwhee...@artifact-software.com>wrote: > Wayne Fay wrote: > >> Guys, I am trying to push Maven in my organization, so I am facing >>> the reality of existing mega projects with mega chaos and the >>> resistance of some zealous ant users. Do you have an operative >>> suggestions? >>> >>> >> >> It sounds like you would benefit from a mandate from someone higher up >> that will gently require people to adopt Maven over some period of >> time. >> >> In an org full of zealous ant users, you're fighting an uphill battle >> without some support. At the least, you need to be able to re-organize >> the projects to get them to conform to Maven's standards for where >> source files should be and to split things up into modules where it >> makes sense etc. >> >> Without a mandate or some power in general over the projects, this >> will probably be yet another failed migration effort. I am less of a >> fan of the "parallel non-disruptive" approach suggested by Curtis >> because it is much harder to accomplish due to the excessive >> configuration that is required, unless you can do all your work in one >> big branch in SVN and then check it all in at once after it is >> working. But that is going to be very disruptive, too. >> >> Wayne >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org >> >> >> >> > Can you provide examples of large organizations that made the move from Ant > to Maven and were happy with the process and felt that the benefits > outweighed the initial costs. > > Ron > > > Ron > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
