I totally disagree with you, Sha! >From my experience, even small projects, with just a few dependencies, benefit from using maven.
What are your alternatives? Can any other build system match maven's ability to produce: - a project layout - eclipse project - easy continuous integration - javadoc etc etc..... "Sha Jiang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev 05.09.2006 14:06:27: > Hello, > Maven can adapt various projects. But in my eyes, it's not necessary to use > Maven in simply projects. In fact, most projects don't use Maven. > Small project may not include many modules, and there are few the > developers. Then using Maven makes a bigger complexity and redundancy > possibly. > > a cup of Java, cheers! > Sha Jiang > > 2006/9/5, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > What do you mean? Can you explain why you think it wouldn't be? > > > > My biggest draw to Maven right now is the dependency management and > > inheritance capabilities. Especially in a Java EE centric world where you > > have the concept of client side jars, runtime dependent libraries, as well > > as provided/platform libraries. Its hard to manage this with just > > ANT. Add > > Eclipse, and things become even more complicated. > > > > Bottom line is its not the number of people on the project that determines > > Maven's usefulness, its the project itself. > > > > -aps > > > > On 9/5/06, Dudu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Is maven good to small teams, like two programmers? > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > "What lies behind us and what lies in front of us is of little concern to > > what lies within us." -Ralph Waldo Emerson > > > >
