I have used Maven for plenty of Scala and Akka projects, but never for a Play project as Play seems to have its own idea of application structure and layout and it is easier to just stick with it for Play.
On 3 December 2014 at 19:11, Eric Kolotyluk <eric.koloty...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does anyone know of a good emotional support group for people trying to use > Maven with Typesafe projects such as Akka and Play? > > I was thinking maybe there could a buddy/sponsor system, such as used in AA > and other self help groups. Maybe there might be group sessions where people > can talk about their trauma, especially by being constantly invalidated by > comments such as "you should use the simple build tool SBT, cause, well you > know, it's simple and easy to use." > > Seriously though, is there a community of people who are successfully using > Maven with Akka an Play projects? I would love to meet you. > > I can see why people who have tried Maven naturally think "oh, its' too > complicated, anyone can write a simple build tool that does what Maven > does." Clearly they do not appreciate what Maven is or what it does. SBT and > Gradle are two great examples of projects that attempted to do something > more simple, but in the end, really don't measure up. > > I personally think the Scala community would be been better served if more > investment was made in developing better Scala build tools within the Maven > framework. More and better plugins for Scala, Akka, Play, etc. Better use > of > > http://books.sonatype.com/mcookbook/reference/sect-scala-script-inline.html > http://books.sonatype.com/mcookbook/reference/ch03s03.html > > I don't know if there is a Scala template for writing Maven plugins (or > mojos), but there should be. > > The more I use SBT, the less I like it. It is not what I consider a serious > build tool for build engineers, it is a toy or playground for Scala hackers > who thrive on the abstruse. Don't get me wrong, I love Scala, but creating a > build tool around .scala files just invites the use of chicken tracks and > obscure overly concise cleverness that leads to one WTF experience after > another. /It is actually possible to write Scala code that you can reason > about,/ but it just as easy to write Scala code that resembles APL, and > reasoning about build engineering was clearly not a priority with the > designers of SBT. > > The Scala-IDE was a really great approach because it leveraged off of an > existing IDE infrastructure such as Eclipse, rather than trying to write an > IDE from scratch the way SBT does. I wish the Scala/Typesafe community had > taken the same approach with build-tools. > > - Eric -- Adam Retter skype: adam.retter tweet: adamretter http://www.adamretter.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org