RE: convincing Workplace to use Maven

2007-10-02 Thread Marziou, Gael
Depending on which technology stack you are using you may have hard time to sell this migration, especially if you're building J2EE apps mixing EJBs and webapps deployed on a commercial platform. Make sure you don't propose only a tool (maven) but rather a full development environment with a r

Re: convincing Workplace to use Maven

2007-09-30 Thread Stefan Reuter
Hi, well it really depends on to whom you want to sell it. Some ideas: - easy to generate IDE project files (or use native IDE import/sync with IDEA 7): estimate the time to setup the environment for a new developer in the current setup vs. mvn eclipse:eclipse - don't reinvent the wheel: count th

RE: convincing Workplace to use Maven

2007-09-30 Thread Lewandowski, Eric
ne- De : Marco Mistroni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : dimanche 30 septembre 2007 05:56 À : Maven Users List Objet : convincing Workplace to use Maven hello all, i am a big fan of maven (i have been using it since approx 3 years..).. and i'd like to use it @ my work, where we are

Re: convincing Workplace to use Maven

2007-09-30 Thread Tony Ambrozie
This is not a comparison to other options, but from my perspective I would say standardization of code artifacts and structure, advanced dependency management, descriptive vs. programmatic builds, enforcement of enterprise conventions through super pom's, rich plugin ecosystem, project site that al

Re: convincing Workplace to use Maven

2007-09-30 Thread Daniele De Francesco
Ok, then that of convincing colleagues, chiefs etc. to switch to maven seems a recurring challenge developers have to face here in Italy. I use maven since 2004 (or was 2003, anyway...) , I think that maven is a great step ahead in code building, integrating,testing, in developing a project

convincing Workplace to use Maven

2007-09-30 Thread Marco Mistroni
hello all, i am a big fan of maven (i have been using it since approx 3 years..).. and i'd like to use it @ my work, where we are still using ant and coding most of the tasks manually.. but i'd need good arguments, as now many IDEs( especially IntelliJ) offer lot of capabilities such as code cove