Sunday, September 15, 2002

My 2 cents on Maven-blindness First off Maven has some very cool features. In fact I use it on a project. However, I don't think everything should use it and here's why: It seems to take longer to run a simple build with Maven. The startup time can be irritating. It doesn't seem to handle zip files well. It can be a pain mapping libs from the repo directory to an IDE like ( IDEA ) It can really over-complicate a small project Please don't mavenize WebWork! But I do thing adding just the DVSL (Velocity) doc generation to WebWork would be nice. Of course you don't need maven for this 9:03:38 PM