On 17/04/2012 2:37 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Especially since the most valuable single
bit of advice one can give a new Maven user is: "if you don't do
things Maven's way, Maven will fight you and Maven will win."
I disagree that it is the "most valuable single bit of advice." It is repeated
far
too frequently, often in cases where there *is* a reasonable technical
answer to the question being asked.
Maven is much more flexible than many give it credit for. You can write your
own plugins to do nearly anything, or invoke Ant with AntRun if you have
existing Ant-based builds
I would have to disagree here. For instance, writing your own plugins is a
horrible idea unless you are very, very, very wise maven user. The problem is
that the docs talk a lot about how it's a plugin architecture and how you can
write your own mojo's. I've just dealt with a project where they wrote their
own mojo's for a bunch of stuff that was already provided by other existing
plugins. The documentation should emphasize the existing body of plugins and
provide a guide to the most useful of those and BURY the concept of writing
your own.
I think the whole notion of configuring or customizing maven in any way is a
very tricky issue. It's front page on the docs, but it's the kind of thing
that would best be put in Chapter 19 of a long book that covered all of the
standard stuff before even broaching the topic.
Very well put.
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