This is another great sign that there is again lots of innovation and exiting development going on in the Maven ecosystem. I am excited to see where this will take us all.
Manfred > Hi, > > As some may know, a lot of work has been done at tesla.io on various > advanced features in Maven but, unfortunately, not enough work for these > features to see the light of day. It wouldn't be surprising if Maven users > have no idea what these features are because I've not done a great job at > communicating about the work. Some of the work is mine, some of other > major contributors, and more recently from key customers. > > To make a long story short there's a lot of cool stuff to talk about, and > the work as a new venue at takari.io! I'll be giving a webinar next week > and here are some of the features I'd like to talk about: > > - Polyglot support: Ruby, Groovy, and Scala DSLs. These have all been > actively worked on in the recent past, especially the Ruby and Scala DSLs. > - Full incremental support: the complete Maven lifecycle including an > incremental command line compiler based on JDT, all with m2e integration > - Aggressive parallelization: a new parallelization mode that also > optimizes scheduling based on critical path analysis > - Generations: a new form of continuous delivery for Maven -- Smart delta > protocol and no more SNAPHOTs! > - Shell: long-lived CLI process for Maven > > Much of this work is functional, and the new parallelization mode and > generations support are actively being used in production. We are still > iterating on these specific features but they show a lot of promise. Where > all of this code eventually lands is a question for the Maven development > community. All of this work was developed outside of Apache, and how easy > it is to integrate back into the Maven project remains to be seen. At the > very least there is a lot of very interesting work and I wanted to start > the dialog because Maven just isn't going to die :-) > > So please join us for a webinar, Tuesday, January 21 at 11:30AM EST (UTC > -5 hours) to learn more about what we're working on and what we're trying > to accomplish. > > All registrants will receive access to the recording, so if you cant make > it you wont have to miss out. > > Register here: http://goo.gl/vqSvL7 > > Hope you can make it, > > Jason van Zyl > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder, Apache Maven > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl > --------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
