Support Forums: Message List - Maven Does Not Suck . . . but the Maven Docs Do http://www.theserverside.com Most recent forum messages en Jive Forums Silver 5.5.30 (www.jivesoftware.com) Sat, 25 May 2013 06:06:02 -0400 Maven Does Not Suck . . . but the Maven Docs Do http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=64298 I have used Maven on many projects both simple and complex and I find that it works very well:

...]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 09:14:14 -0400 Thu, 10 May 2012 09:14:14 -0400 Thu, 10 May 2012 09:14:14 -0400 May 10, 2012 edwinquaihoi2012 0 Maven 3 is still generating a .m2 (Maven 2) directory http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=64298 They already did that. They called it .m2 and it's the 2nd version of the .maven directory. We don't have to have the third version of the directory just because we have the 3rd version of the application.

]]> Tue, 08 May 2012 15:59:37 -0400 Tue, 08 May 2012 15:59:37 -0400 Tue, 08 May 2012 15:59:37 -0400 May 8, 2012 Lee Meador 0 what is 'backward compatibility' to you? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=64298 A reasonable goal for maven developers would be: projects originally built with maven 2 would build and have the same content when built with maven 3.

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]]> Fri, 04 May 2012 11:07:08 -0400 Fri, 04 May 2012 11:07:08 -0400 Fri, 04 May 2012 11:07:08 -0400 May 4, 2012 John Franey 0 agree http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=64298 The vast majority of people who have issue with Maven just do not understand how it works. We have been using Maven for years with few if any problems. Well, back when we were using JEE we had tons of problems with building EARs and all the...]]> Thu, 03 May 2012 09:40:33 -0400 Thu, 03 May 2012 09:40:33 -0400 Thu, 03 May 2012 09:40:33 -0400 May 3, 2012 peter lin 0 Please lookup definition of backward compatible. http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=64298 Maven 3 isn't even close to having backwards compatibility with maven 2....]]> Wed, 02 May 2012 17:05:30 -0400 Wed, 02 May 2012 17:05:30 -0400 Wed, 02 May 2012 17:05:30 -0400 May 2, 2012 Cedric Rouvrais 0 Maven 3 is still generating a .m2 (Maven 2) directory http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=64298 ...]]> Wed, 02 May 2012 05:52:02 -0400 Wed, 02 May 2012 05:52:02 -0400 Wed, 02 May 2012 05:52:02 -0400 May 2, 2012 Jan de Jonge 2 fw http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=64298 Tue, 01 May 2012 14:41:24 -0400 Tue, 01 May 2012 14:41:24 -0400 Tue, 01 May 2012 14:41:24 -0400 May 1, 2012 Nathaniel Auvil 0 Apache Buildr as an alternative. http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=64298 On large projects like you describe the build software is another, parallel programming project in itself.  It requires a true programming language, not XML.

...]]> Tue, 01 May 2012 11:30:14 -0400 Tue, 01 May 2012 11:30:14 -0400 Tue, 01 May 2012 11:30:14 -0400 May 1, 2012 Dean Schulze 0 Maven 3 is still generating a .m2 (Maven 2) directory http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=64298 ...]]> Tue, 01 May 2012 10:32:30 -0400 Tue, 01 May 2012 10:32:30 -0400 Tue, 01 May 2012 10:32:30 -0400 May 1, 2012 Alexandre Poitras 3 Maven 3 is still generating a .m2 (Maven 2) directory http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=64298 Why is Maven 3 still generating the .m2 directory? This is again one of the short sightedness we sometimes face with engineers in our industry. Why don't they correct it now by making .maven or something? I know there is a way around it but it looks...]]> Tue, 01 May 2012 09:57:57 -0400 Tue, 01 May 2012 09:57:57 -0400 Tue, 01 May 2012 09:57:57 -0400 May 1, 2012 Jan de Jonge 4 Apache Buildr as an alternative. http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=64298 ...]]> Tue, 01 May 2012 09:43:41 -0400 Tue, 01 May 2012 09:43:41 -0400 Tue, 01 May 2012 09:43:41 -0400 May 1, 2012 peter lin 1 Maven Does Not Suck . . . but the Maven Docs Do http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=64298 ...]]> Tue, 01 May 2012 09:02:56 -0400 Tue, 01 May 2012 09:02:56 -0400 Tue, 01 May 2012 09:02:56 -0400 May 1, 2012 Tim Schwenk 0 huh? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=64298 ...]]> Tue, 01 May 2012 05:44:42 -0400 Tue, 01 May 2012 05:44:42 -0400 Tue, 01 May 2012 05:44:42 -0400 May 1, 2012 Pavel Grushetzky 0 huh? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=64298 You don't know anything about maven, do you.  From the maven docs:

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