It's more of a love hate thing, it is pretty powerful but it becomes a problem with very long build processes in my experience on big teams. I actually like Maven personally and more so like stuff like SCons: http://www.scons.org/. It seems more common platform rather than so tuned to Java like Maven.
Just in my experience every software project I have been on with Java that used maven had an immense build process. I am not kidding one system I worked on the tests alone within it took about 45 minutes per day just to get started. Maybe it is too powerful, and yes part of that is the xml/enterprise feel of Java and guilty by association.
Just in my experience every software project I have been on with Java that used maven had an immense build process. I am not kidding one system I worked on the tests alone within it took about 45 minutes per day just to get started. Maybe it is too powerful, and yes part of that is the xml/enterprise feel of Java and guilty by association.