Yes, Maven can be complex, but if your project has a clear structure, it can be very powerful.
Another option, I haven't tried yet, could be Gradle. It is a build tool, that uses Groovy for writing build scripts. The benefit is, that it's based on Ant and Ivy, so it allows you to use all the Ant stuff around. Regards Jan Ehrhardt On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 7:05 PM, gwtfanb0y <siegfried.b...@googlemail.com>wrote: > Now after all the maven enthusiasts above this comment, i have to say > some words about ANT. > I have used the default ant build-scripts (which are included inside > the project when you create > it with the webAppCreator) in all of my projectes and it worked very > well. If you want to add > new ant-targets e.g. for gui-tests, these are easy to implement. > > My experience with maven is, when you have a big project, the > administration of maven is > a fulltime job. > > If you have litte experience with maven und need to start fast your > project, so you should > choose ANT. > > > On 26 Nov., 22:46, jbdhl <jbirksd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm about to start a new GWT project but can't decide weather to use > > maven or not - partly because I'm completely new to maven. Are there > > really large benefits from using maven? I've heard, that not even > > google is using it, and this worries me a little. > > > > Our project will be a bit of a mix of various stuff and I don't know > > how well this fits into the maven structure: > > > > * besides the usual client/servlet code, we will build a few smaller > > java tools to be run periodically by cron. > > > > * we will use a bunch of scripts written in various languages to > > solve different tasks > > > > * the project will include a bunch of documentation and text > > documents > > > > All in all: what is your recomendation? Maven or not? > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-web-toolkit%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
