http://techblog.molindo.at/2007/10/maven-curse-or-blessing.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maven-curse-or-blessing Molindo Techblog – formerly known as talk-on-tech.blogspot.com Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:48:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://techblog.molindo.at/2007/10/maven-curse-or-blessing.html#comment-103 Eelco Hillenius Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:52:00 +0000 http://tech.molindo.at/2007/10/maven-curse-or-blessing.html#comment-103 Imho, compared to Ant, Maven is a blessing. Ant is a great tool, and as it isn't in your way, it might be easier to use for your own projects. But the part that I like about Maven is that there is finally some uniformity with a lot of open source projects. Instead of being forced to figure out the most exotic project layouts and a zillion build properties like was the case when you wanted to build a project in the past, you can now build projects much easier.Also, forcing it's users to work with versioned libs is a good thing. I know you can achieve the same with Ant, but the fact is that most Ant based projects simply don't, even not today.As a final remark: Ivy is quite nice. It is new as an Ant project, but the project exists for a few years already. In fact, I've used it in a project myself more than two years ago.Final, final remark: did you ever look at Buildr (http://buildr.rubyforge.org/)? Looks very promising to me, though I didn't look into how their repositories work yet. Imho, compared to Ant, Maven is a blessing. Ant is a great tool, and as it isn’t in your way, it might be easier to use for your own projects. But the part that I like about Maven is that there is finally some uniformity with a lot of open source projects. Instead of being forced to figure out the most exotic project layouts and a zillion build properties like was the case when you wanted to build a project in the past, you can now build projects much easier.Also, forcing it’s users to work with versioned libs is a good thing. I know you can achieve the same with Ant, but the fact is that most Ant based projects simply don’t, even not today.As a final remark: Ivy is quite nice. It is new as an Ant project, but the project exists for a few years already. In fact, I’ve used it in a project myself more than two years ago.Final, final remark: did you ever look at Buildr (http://buildr.rubyforge.org/)? Looks very promising to me, though I didn’t look into how their repositories work yet.

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