Monday August 11, 2008
John has posted an article about how to use the archetype:generate plugin. The plugin will present the available archetypes and then lets you entered the required artifacts.
Much better than typing the rather lengthy command line params (if you remembered them anyway).
Posted on Aug 11, 2008 at 11:25 (MET) | Permalink | 2 comments
Tuesday February 12, 2008
There has a lot of blog posting about the up- and downsides about Maven lately. As I was one of the early adopters, and probably made others to use it by writing articles in the Java Magazin about it, I am following the discussing with some interest.
On the one side, the idea behind Maven is certainly a good one. Everytime I created a build system based on good old Ant, I wished I would have been able to use Maven. On the other hand, Maven really sucks. Yes, it does. And people like Matt Raible and Don Brown who try to help improving Maven don’t make it much better. In fact, I strongly agree with Charles Miller of Atlassian, who says “Maven: Broken by Design” (btw: an excellent and entertaining read).
In this whole discussion, I personally think that the use cases for Maven should be re-thought. This would help focussing the discussion.
Posted on Feb 12, 2008 at 17:27 (MET) | Permalink | 1 comment
Thursday April 12, 2007
I’ve spend hours on Maven 1 and 2, while writing articles about it. I guess that’s what you have to do, when you evaluate a tool.
However, this is the result when lead developer/product architect Charles Miller of Atlassian spends too much time:
Posted on Apr 12, 2007 at 20:40 (MET) | Permalink | Add comment
Saturday April 8, 2006
After reviewing Mevenide for the last issue of German Eclipse Magazine, I have had a look at the “Maven 2 Plugin for Eclipse“. There is only an development release available, but the Plugin already contains some great features and the UI design feels just right.
My favourite feature is the dependency browser, which also includes a repository browser. So if you need to add a dependency, you can search for it within Eclipse and let the plugin download it.
The next release will even provide the dependency download as a “quick fix” (when you hit Ctrl-1). Eugene (the plugin’s lead developer) provides more info about upcoming features.
Posted on Apr 8, 2006 at 13:35 (MET) | Permalink | Add comment
Friday January 27, 2006
I just found a nice comparison chart of Ant vs. Maven in this article by Julien Dubois:
| Ant | Maven | |
| Installation | Very easy | Very easy (very similar to Ant) |
| Time to start a new project | 5 minutes | 15 minutes |
| Time to add a new functionality | 10 minutes to add a new target | 2 minutes to use a new goal |
| Time to learn for a new developer | 30 minutes. Very easy to understand, and very good tool support. | 2 hours. Can be confusing at the beginning. |
| Standard layout | No (which is good; you can do whatever you want). | Yes (which is good, all your projects will look the same). |
| Multi-project support | Yes, but you have to do your own master build file. | Yes, with the Maven Reactor |
| Documentation generation | No standard way to do it, but there are plenty of available tools. | Yes |
| IDE integration | Yes | Very basic |
Posted on Jan 27, 2006 at 17:26 (MET) | Permalink | Add comment
Saturday December 31, 2005
I installed Mevenide for Eclipse (a plugin to add Maven support to different IDEs, e.g. Eclipse) a couple months ago and it worked right away. So, when Alexander Neumann of Software & Support Verlag asked me for an short article about Mevenide, I agreed to submit it for the 02/05 issue of the German Eclipse Magazine. When I started writing the article this week and trying to install it with my latest Eclipse installation, I had a nasty surprise: While the new project wizard and the POM configuration worked, the Maven launcher wouldn’t want to work even after hours of twiddling with different versions of Eclipse and Mevenide. In the end I got it working and I thought I share it not only with my readers of the Eclipse Magazine.
Prerequisites:
)Installation:
That did the trick for me - I even can deploy Flowfuse from within Eclipse. Let me know if you have further tricks…
Besides the installation … errm … glitches, Mevenide provides good functionality. However, the Eclipse version of it seems sort of doomed: Most development efforts go into Netbeans version, which way more advanced and over at Megere - the Maven-Simulalabs-Opensource-Startup - they started developing and m2 plugin for eclipse. Once projects move to m2 the Eclipse version of Mevenide will probably disappear…
What do you think?
Posted on Dec 31, 2005 at 00:41 (MET) | Permalink | 2 comments
Monday October 24, 2005
Quick update (& shameless plug): As I already mentioned, i wrote an article about Maven. It has finally been published in the latest issue of the Java Magazin (online version available here).
Posted on Oct 24, 2005 at 14:01 (MET) | Permalink | 1 comment
Sunday July 31, 2005
It looks like i’ll be writing an article about Maven to be published in the German Java-Magazin in October. It is based on experiences from my past projects and also contains practical tips. I will be probably posting some additional tips here - so stay tuned…
Posted on Jul 31, 2005 at 23:14 (MET) | Permalink | 1 comment
Thursday April 7, 2005
I just spent some time to get the Eclipse projects for ActiveMQ working. I encountered the following problems:
Apart from that I think ActiveMQ is fairly decent example for a complex Maven build.
Update: The wrong classpath entry has been fixed (AMQ-228)
Posted on Apr 7, 2005 at 15:33 (MET) | Permalink | Add comment
Monday December 20, 2004
Very recently I’ve introduced Maven at work. Since then colleagues kept asking me how to pronounce ‘Maven’ - now i found it out. If you didn’t know either, here is the answer.
Update: The link to the actual WAV file is http//cougar.eb.com/sound/m/maven001.wav.
Posted on Dec 20, 2004 at 19:14 (MET) | Permalink | Add comment
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