Michael McCallum wrote:
with a few subtle exceptions related to bugs that are fixed in 2.0.7 every question i've been asked in regard to using maven2 has been found in the documentation in under 5 minutes
That depends just how much of maven you are using. You might choose to use maven to build you a jar. Or you might have many jars, and arrange tham as dependencies of one another. Then you might go one step further and create many jars released at once in a multi-module configuration. Then you might choose to start using the maven release process to handle releases, and you might choose to run your own maven repository infrastructure.
I can tell you from experience that getting the above working took a significant amount of time and effort, and in some cases, it involved stepping through maven modules in a debugger to figure out what the modules were doing.
Many things about maven can be found in the documentation in 5 minutes, but to say that "every question" can be answered by the maven docs in under 5 minutes does both maven and maven users a disservice.
Maven is an extremely valuable tool, but it is by no means trivial. Regards, Graham --
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