> Exactly. Since any change would require a learning curve > and it seems we don't have that many (read none) maven > experts in the house, Gradle could be equally considered, > given that it seems more advanced in customization.
I know well Maven but Olivier (Lamy) is a Maven expert, so there is friend in the business. And there is a full Maven PMC not too far ready to provide advices and help. Not counting Tomcat consumers ASF projects like OpenEJB. > E.g I know that Hibernate switched from Maven to Gradle > just because maven Why not. BTW, how many projects moved from Maven to Gradle in JBoss ? > But then we are back at original question. > What's the benefit and do we have a problem that > cannot be done using existing technology? Why using another technology ? Damn't, that's a question I would expect everywhere except on an ASF developer list. Advantages to use Maven have been mentioned many time on tomcat-dev, and I recalled a few on this thread. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org