I've been reading through a lot of the replies to the Poll this morning. It seems to me that we need a tool the does the following to be more productive with maven:
* Locates remote repositories, and potentially adds them to settings.xml or pom.xml * Let's us upload 3rd party libraries to company-repository in seconds * Provides access to documentation on plugins, and helps configuring them. I've spent lots of time searching for documentation and usage examples. * Helps you building the pom (/ poms in a multi-module environment). GUI-style. Something like the web.xml editors you can find in certain IDEs - just better ... Stefan "Eric Redmond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev 29.08.2006 19:55:12: > Hi all Maven users! > > I'm beginning a study to outline the real reasons that people have for > avoiding Maven. My questions to you all are: > What were your anxieties about using Maven? If you use Maven: what helped > you make the decision? If you don't: why did you avoid it? > > Here are some that I have heard in the past: > > * Lack of good documentation. > * Community unwilling to help me with my problems. > * Not "industry supported" or "mainstream" enough. > * I don't like conforming to the Maven project layout. > * My project is too complex to switch. > * There are not enough plugins available. > * We already have a large investement in tool X. > * I have to build native/non-Java code. > > Any more reasons? Care to expand these ideas? > Thanks for your help! > ____ > Eric Redmond > http://codehaus.org/~eredmond
