--- title: Apache Maven Reviews meta\_title: 'Apache Maven Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 168 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Apache Maven works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 168 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: CI/CD Tools url: https://www.g2.com/categories/ci-cd-tools --- # Apache Maven Reviews & Product Details Apache Maven is a robust build automation and project management tool primarily designed for Java projects, though it also supports languages like C#, Ruby, and Scala. Developed by the Apache Software Foundation, Maven streamlines the software development process by managing project builds, dependencies, and documentation through a standardized approach. Key Features and Functionality: - Project Object Model (POM): Centralizes project configuration in a single XML file, detailing project information, dependencies, and build instructions. - Dependency Management: Automatically handles project dependencies by downloading required libraries from repositories and managing versioning to ensure compatibility. - Build Lifecycle: Defines a series of build phases (e.g., compile, test, package) that standardize the build process, ensuring consistency across projects. - Plugin Architecture: Extensible through a wide range of plugins that add functionalities such as code compilation, testing, and packaging. - Convention over Configuration: Emphasizes predefined conventions to reduce the need for extensive configuration, allowing developers to focus on coding rather than build setup. Primary Value and Problem Solving: Maven addresses the complexities of modern software development by providing a uniform build system that simplifies project setup and maintenance. By automating dependency management, it eliminates the manual tracking of libraries and their versions, reducing the risk of conflicts and errors. Its standardized build lifecycle ensures that projects are built, tested, and packaged consistently, enhancing reliability and facilitating collaboration among development teams. Additionally, Maven's extensible plugin system allows for customization to meet specific project needs, making it a versatile tool in the software development lifecycle. * * * Seller [The Apache Software Foundation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/the-apache-software-foundation) Discussions [Apache Maven Community](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-maven/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 4 months ### Return on Investment 10 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-maven/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform") Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 4.6/5(377) ](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform/reviews) [ ![Azure DevOps Server](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Azure DevOps Server") Azure DevOps Server 4.2/5(200) ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-devops-server/reviews) [ ![GitHub](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "GitHub") GitHub 4.7/5(2,397) ](https://www.g2.com/products/github/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-maven/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 168 real user reviews. Implementation Time 4 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/27/2018 "Amazing easy build tool" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Maven? 1. Ease of dependency management 2. One stop for all plugins 3. Integration capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Maven? 1. Non intuitive error messages 2. Error messages need to specific and elaborate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Maven solving and how is that benefiting you? Reduce build time and increase integrated development environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") CI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/5/2017 "Maven makes builds easier" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Maven? The ease of use of poms to configure each module in a JEE project is exceptionally handy. Without a developers complete setup you have the ability to just use SVN to checkout the code repository and run a build. All you got to do is make sure your settings.xml is correctly configured Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Maven? There is not much that I dislike however I would appreciate a detailed documentation of hiccups which come across maven usage for newbies. This would help in collecting more followers to an ever growing software use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Maven: Apache Maven is a great build management and configuration software. Use it as much as you can Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Maven solving and how is that benefiting you? We make our builds flexible and extensible using maven. Prototyping a project or a project module becomes super easy with maven configured Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Himanshu S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Himanshu S.") HS Himanshu S. QA Architect Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/14/2017 "Software Test Automation Architect Using Maven for Building Automation Frameworks" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Maven? With automation testing, the world changes really fast. Every update to any browser Safari, Chrome, Firefox leads to a new library being added for supporting automation. Maven makes life so much easier by providing me the ability to keep myself up to date with the libraries. The ability to build Cucumber, TestNG or any kind of project as Maven is an added benefit. And where do i start with the ease of Continuous Integration with Maven. Jenkins just love Maven. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Maven? The issues that arise with pulling the dependencies into the project which are not very clear from looking at the errors. Sometimes random errors are caused which just goes away with refresh or restart. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Maven: If you are not using it for Selenium projects, try it. Life would be so much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Maven solving and how is that benefiting you? We are trying to automate the API and UI for our applications. It helps us keep the latest browsers supported. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Santosh V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Santosh V.") SV Santosh V. Consultant Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/30/2017 "Maven is a perfect build tool" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Maven? It is a best build tool to use in any java projects. It is a easy to learn tool and is very efficient in a project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Maven? Nothing so far. All the jars in the projects need to be mavenized and it is tough to figure out how to integrate that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Maven: Maven is a lot of learning Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Maven solving and how is that benefiting you? Building the projects on a developer environment and configuring the project organizedly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/21/2018 "It's okay" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Maven? defined lifecycles, importing libraries is easy to use, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Maven? cryptic error messages, recompiling everything is necessary, painful to set up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Maven: g Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Maven solving and how is that benefiting you? we're using it to write an API. it's so far very easily compatible with Hibernate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite JB Jacob B. Chief Information Officer Insurance Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/23/2017 "Powerful software but with sometimes confusing configuration" 4/5 What do you like best about Apache Maven? Maven does a good job at its core function--managing the dependencies between projects and libraries. When it is well configured, it allows our developers to focus on using required functionality without stressing over where it comes from. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Maven? Getting a good maven configuration takes a lot of effort. That is--it has many configuration parameters, some of which are not very intuitive, and when you don't have them set right you can get very strange and frustrating behavior that can take significant time to debug. Part of the configuration challenge we've faced has to do with how Maven integrates with the Spring STS IDE, as both platforms add their own competing compexity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Maven: We have found the documentation regarding integration of Maven with Spring Test Suite to be somewhat lacking. There IS lots of free/open source documentation out there, and there definitely are resources (stack overflow, for example) that can be helpful, but many of the solutions you'll encounter are "hacks". The best advice I've found is to identify a colleague/friend in another company using Maven/etc to act as a resource to help guide you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Maven solving and how is that benefiting you? We're using Maven to manage dependencies in a large proprietary Java-based web application. More precisely, we're migrating from a legacy ASP dot-net system to a new Java system. Maven seems to do an especially good job managing dependencies on common third party libraries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Networking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Networking") UC Verified User in Computer Networking Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/30/2017 "Easier to keep track of external libraries your project needs" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Maven? Manage library version. Automatically get Javadoc of JAR's, run unit tests Maven added the ability to extract libraries from repositories, and do many other tasks, but imposed a specific directory and file structure on the application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Maven? Library repositories are not always safe. Need to know the basics of how Maven works to get things going Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Maven: Its a build tool meaning its responsible for compiling the code, running the test cases, packaging the files and deploying it on a server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Maven solving and how is that benefiting you? All dependencies are downloaded automatically Every member of your team will be building/deploying in the same way with every compile Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/30/2018 "Apache maven review" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Maven? It describes how software is built and show all the dependencies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Maven? There is nothing much to dislike this, works nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Maven solving and how is that benefiting you? Software building is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite KR Kripashankar R. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/2/2018 "Maven is a good compared to ant" 3/5 What do you like best about Apache Maven? Ability to auto build.. it takes the latest version of jars automatically Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Maven? Maintenance of pom XML.. it's a bit tiresome Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Maven solving and how is that benefiting you? It's good for group member projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Massimiliano S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Massimiliano S.") MS Massimiliano S. Sviluppatore java Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/30/2017 "Maven review" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Maven? The power and comfort of the standard maven lifecycle and is very easy to start using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Maven? It takes too much time to build a project respect to other software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Maven solving and how is that benefiting you? Use it to build our customer projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Apache Maven? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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