InfoQ has an interesting article gathering several thoughts and rants regarding the usefulness of Maven as a build tool, despite having used Maven with some success I must agree with some of the referred problems.
Maven has a declarative approach to a project, rather than the procedural approach of Ant, which makes it easier to move around from one project to another, something that doesn’t happen in Ant; and not to forget the dependency management, which is indeed is a killer feature (although I admit I’ve never tried Ivy). But the documentation still is poor and sparse and it requires the team and build process do adjust to the Maven philosophy and structure.
Debate: Is Maven the right tool for builds?
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Tags: java, open source
