I’ve been trying maven in the last few days. I haven’t gotten a Hello WOrld to 
run yet. I’m updating the wiki getting started page as I go along. Most of the 
maven pages on the wiki appear to be last edited between 2009-2011.

On May 4, 2015, at 8:29 AM, Jean-François Veillette 
<jean_francois_veille...@yahoo.ca> wrote:

> At my previous workplace, we did the switch to Maven.  Luckily we had a real 
> maven expert to drive the move.
> We started with around 50+ projects, all ant based, using the ‘standard’ 
> fluffy-bunny layout.  He added pom.xml here and there, and everything just 
> started working with maven.  We had choice to build/run with maven and/or ant 
> and it was (almost) transparent.  The only exception was that if you decided 
> to use in maven, you had to change the class path to remove everything but 
> the maven and java dependencies (2 lines left), a simple .classpath that was 
> standard and could be copied from one project to the other.
> The maven build was then integrated with Jenkins (CI) and SonarQube (so that 
> future ‘JF’ is happy with old ‘JF’, and all the team's work are standardized 
> a bit) with ease.
> 
> From my experience, the team was happy with the Maven switch, none of us had 
> to become an expert (because we had one already).
> Maven help a lot on easing the dependency management of your apps (a building 
> block only declare his direct dependency).  Once you remove the noise of 
> declaring dependencies, you will be left with a clear graph of dependent 
> block.  You will then have to tackle the real problem of incompatible 
> dependencies (A need B and Xv1, but B need Xv2).  Maven will make the graph 
> simple and clear, it will try to provide helper but can’t really help much 
> after that.
> 
> jfv
> 
> 
>> On May 4, 2015, at 5:09 AM, David Avendasora <webobje...@avendasora.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On May 1, 2015, at 6:35 PM, Chuck Hill <ch...@gevityinc.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Maven seems like a better thought out and implemented solution.
>> 
>> …
>> 
>> Have you ever had one of those moments where things just seem so off-kilter 
>> you’re sure you’re having a dream, but no matter how many times you cry out 
>> for mommy you are left sitting there slowly realizing that there’s been some 
>> fundamental shift in the universe that you missed out on. (And your wife is 
>> slowly picking up her phone and dialing your therapist. Again.)
>> 
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