At my previous workplace, we did the switch to Maven. Luckily we had a real maven expert to drive the move. We started with around 50+ projects, all ant based, using the ‘standard’ fluffy-bunny layout. He added pom.xml here and there, and everything just started working with maven. We had choice to build/run with maven and/or ant and it was (almost) transparent. The only exception was that if you decided to use in maven, you had to change the class path to remove everything but the maven and java dependencies (2 lines left), a simple .classpath that was standard and could be copied from one project to the other. The maven build was then integrated with Jenkins (CI) and SonarQube (so that future ‘JF’ is happy with old ‘JF’, and all the team's work are standardized a bit) with ease.
From my experience, the team was happy with the Maven switch, none of us had to become an expert (because we had one already). Maven help a lot on easing the dependency management of your apps (a building block only declare his direct dependency). Once you remove the noise of declaring dependencies, you will be left with a clear graph of dependent block. You will then have to tackle the real problem of incompatible dependencies (A need B and Xv1, but B need Xv2). Maven will make the graph simple and clear, it will try to provide helper but can’t really help much after that. jfv > On May 4, 2015, at 5:09 AM, David Avendasora <webobje...@avendasora.com> > wrote: > >> On May 1, 2015, at 6:35 PM, Chuck Hill <ch...@gevityinc.com >> <mailto:ch...@gevityinc.com>> wrote: >> >> Maven seems like a better thought out and implemented solution. > > … > > Have you ever had one of those moments where things just seem so off-kilter > you’re sure you’re having a dream, but no matter how many times you cry out > for mommy you are left sitting there slowly realizing that there’s been some > fundamental shift in the universe that you missed out on. (And your wife is > slowly picking up her phone and dialing your therapist. Again.) > > ————————————————————————————— > WebObjects - so easy that even Dave Avendasora can do it!™ > ————————————————————————————— > David Avendasora > Senior Software Abuser > Nekesto, Inc.
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