Brett PorterThoughts on Maven and Java from my corner of Sydney, AustraliaMaven is not just a bunch of ant tasks- May 24, 2004 I was reading dion's response to Howard's Maven post, and saw a comment there that said: Howard is also looking at using JAM, which provides a pre-built set of ant tasks, much like Maven except written so I don't have to learn a whole new tool and language. This seems to be what Maven should have been, if developed by people with sense. Despite all the complaints about Jelly (most of which come from the Maven developers :), countless people have tried. I don't quite understand that - you...http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/brett/archives/000733_maven_is_not_just_a_bunch_of_ant_ta... Re: Moving Away From Maven- May 22, 2004 Howard says he is moving away from Maven, and gives some fair reasons for it, and I thought it was appropriate to respond. Howard starts out by stating what he likes about Maven: Automated donwload of dependencies (from http:www.ibiblio.orgmaven) Integrated pretty documentation (with navigation) For dependencies, a good solution in Ant is later given. I think Howard would agree with me here - if you are using Maven just so you can grab dependencies easily and intend to script the build...http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/brett/archives/000731_re_moving_away_from_maven.html Maven 1.0 RC3 Released- May 20, 2004 The Maven team is pleased to announce the Maven 1.0-rc3 release! http:maven.apache.orgstartdownload.html Maven 1.0 RC3 is the final release candidate for Maven 1.0. Maven is a project management and project comprehension tool. Maven is based on the concept of a project object model: builds, documentation creation, site publication, and distribution publication are all controlled from the project object model. Maven also provides tools to create source metrics, change logs based directly on...http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/brett/archives/000728_maven_10_rc3_released.html |