First off I gotta say ramping up with Maven 2 has been very hard compared to Maven 1. I was a big fan of Maven 1 and was using it successfully and it was doing what I wanted but now with Maven 2 it's just so much more darn complex and customizable it makes it harder to even know where to start. I like the high level design better but it's not user friendly. It'd be nice if there was a cook book that went over more than just the basics of compiling and running tests and checking dependencies.
Can someone give me pointers on the following: * How do I make it so that when I run tests the tests results also show up as part of the site generation? It'd be nice if I could see a test summary and also navigate from the site the tests that failed. * How to get continuous integration running with Maven2. Is there a guide somewhere? * I tried running a clover:report task and it downloaded all the proper jars but it's giving me an error saying that the license has expired. The documentation said that a 30-day eval license was included but I didn't see it. I do have a valid license file however. How do I point Maven to use the valid clover.license file? I tried putting the license file in the same dir as the jar file as is what you normally do with clover but that didn't work. * How do I make it so that certain goals are always part of the default set and always run? I just want to type "mvn" and have it execute these goals. Thanks, Christian <rant> Is Maven 2 still in a "beta" state? If not it's kind of suprising how tricky it is to really get up and running. If one of the goals is to replace Ant and get widespread adoption it's got to be easy for people to actually use the thing and get functionality that goes beyond compiling, testing and dependency checking I would think. Right now there seem to be too many gotchas and a lot of complexity in the sake of configurability but that's killing ease of use IMHO. In the Maven 1 days I definitely was a big believer but now I'm not so sure. I have the formidable task of trying to get my team to adopt Maven 2 (I work at the largest online retailer) and all I see the team members saying is "Man, this is way too complex, Ant is just easy to use, why don't we just use that?" </rant>
