I would be careful with the Maven1 book if you are delving into Maven2. You might skim it to get some general concepts, but most of the details of Maven2 are different from Maven1. Don't invest yourself too heavily in Maven1 if you are going to proceed with Maven2.
Maven2 is far superior. But you'll *need* this mailing list. Some might call that suffering :) cc -----Original Message----- From: Babak Farhang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 1:16 AM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: M1 or M2? Thanks for encouraging Maven2! I must say, though, that you didn't address my "Will I suffer?" question :-) I just checked out *Maven: A Dev's Notebook* which is slightly dated and based on Maven1. Nice, fairly well-organized, spoon-fed info in that book which I hope is more or less applicable to Maven2, as well. Reading some of the user feedback on reviews about Maven2 (e.g. see http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-2005/jw-1205-maven-p3.html ) I thought it might be wiser if I first learnt Maven1. > .. If you want to suffer then > delve into writing Jelly plugins in Maven1. ;) Maven2 is a beautiful > thing... I'm sure it's beautiful. Really! I'm hoping not to need to write any plugins, though. I'm not a build engineer: I'll be using Maven mostly because it makes developing apps easier... So for now, as a newbie, I'll stick to Maven1 until there is better documentation out there for Maven2. I *did* try Maven2 along w/ its documentation, but for now, here's my advice to other newcomers: The path to m2 is through m1. Or ye shall suffer needlessly, as I have... :-) If I follow the *best practices*, it seems, I should be able to migrate relatively painlessly to M2. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------- Attention: Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorized to state them to be the views of any such entity. The information contained in this message and or attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any system and destroy any copies. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
