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Maven Pros and Cons: Top Advantages and Disadvantages

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Users value the endless support and community resources for Maven, enhancing their development experience significantly. (1 mentions)
Users appreciate the ease of use of Maven, benefiting from extensive community support and seamless integration. (1 mentions)
Users appreciate the end-to-end management of Maven, enhancing their development process with valuable integration and support. (1 mentions)
Users value the seamless integration of Maven with their projects, ensuring reliable builds and testing for CI. (1 mentions)
Users value the teaching quality of Maven, appreciating the extensive online resources and community support available. (1 mentions)
Users find Maven's complexity challenging due to its project hierarchy and unclear build process stages. (1 mentions)
Users find a lack of clarity in Maven's build process and project hierarchy, complicating the user experience. (1 mentions)

Top Pros or Advantages of Maven

1. Customer Support
Users value the endless support and community resources for Maven, enhancing their development experience significantly.
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Verified User

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"I thought maven was overcomplicated, then I tried the alternatives"

What do you like about Maven?

Maven is primarily command line based, which makes it hard to get started with. But if you learn the basics, you can build on that step by step. There

2. Ease of Use
Users appreciate the ease of use of Maven, benefiting from extensive community support and seamless integration.
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Verified User

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"I thought maven was overcomplicated, then I tried the alternatives"

What do you like about Maven?

Maven is primarily command line based, which makes it hard to get started with. But if you learn the basics, you can build on that step by step. There

3. Helpful
Users appreciate the end-to-end management of Maven, enhancing their development process with valuable integration and support.
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Verified User

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"I thought maven was overcomplicated, then I tried the alternatives"

What do you like about Maven?

Maven is primarily command line based, which makes it hard to get started with. But if you learn the basics, you can build on that step by step. There

4. Practice
Users value the seamless integration of Maven with their projects, ensuring reliable builds and testing for CI.
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Verified User

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"I thought maven was overcomplicated, then I tried the alternatives"

What do you like about Maven?

Maven is primarily command line based, which makes it hard to get started with. But if you learn the basics, you can build on that step by step. There

5. Teaching Quality
Users value the teaching quality of Maven, appreciating the extensive online resources and community support available.
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Verified User

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"I thought maven was overcomplicated, then I tried the alternatives"

What do you like about Maven?

Maven is primarily command line based, which makes it hard to get started with. But if you learn the basics, you can build on that step by step. There

Top Cons or Disadvantages of Maven

1. Difficulty
Users find Maven's complexity challenging due to its project hierarchy and unclear build process stages.
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Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"I thought maven was overcomplicated, then I tried the alternatives"

What do you dislike about Maven?

Maven does need a bit of understanding. There's day to day things like understanding project hierarchy and complex dependency management. It's powerfu

2. Lack of Clarity
Users find a lack of clarity in Maven's build process and project hierarchy, complicating the user experience.
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Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"I thought maven was overcomplicated, then I tried the alternatives"

What do you dislike about Maven?

Maven does need a bit of understanding. There's day to day things like understanding project hierarchy and complex dependency management. It's powerfu

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Praveen N.
PN
Member of Technical Staff
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Maven in DevOps pipeline for Seamless Java Project Automation"
What do you like best about Maven?

1. Its preferred build automation and DevOps tool primarily used for Java projects since its open source.

2.Easy to manage all the dependencies via single Project Object Model (POM) file pom.xml

3. It integrates seamlessly with continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline CI/CD along with Jenkins, making it pretty much easily suitable for automated builds, testing, and deployment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Maven?

1.For beginners unfamiliar with maven project structure and build lifecycle phases it will be challenging to get to use.

2.This will get lag with large and complex projects.

3.Few advanced plugins or extensions to used with maven are not open source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism
UL
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"I thought maven was overcomplicated, then I tried the alternatives"
What do you like best about Maven?

Maven is primarily command line based, which makes it hard to get started with. But if you learn the basics, you can build on that step by step. There are extensions and plugins for almost anything you need. Most reacently I have enjoyed the jib plugin to build docker images directly from maven. This is what maven can do, it makes the dev process managed end-to-end and makes it repeatable.

There is endless support for maven online, with officially supported plugins and tons of community support and examples on stackoverflow, etc.

To get started with maven, the initial learning curve can be steep. You have to invest a bit in understanding. But also you can "run it blind" by checking out a project configured by someone else and it will work fine. That's the point, it integrates into your project very closely to save other people time.

I use maven when I'm working every day to build and test my code. I don't push my code to CI without running it in maven first. Even if it passes in my IDE I rely on "if it build on maven here, it build on maven in CI" where it counts. So it's great that it integrates with both workstation and continuous integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Maven?

Maven does need a bit of understanding. There's day to day things like understanding project hierarchy and complex dependency management. It's powerful, and you can abstract things to the n'th degree if you need, but you need to figure it out a bit.

The thing that never becomes clear with out really trying hard are the stages of the build process, prepare, compile, test, install, deploy, validate, there's a lot and it's not immediately clear nor is it always exposed to you. That's what makes maven a bit annoying.

BUT I also have to use Bazel. And this is a complete nightmare for me. I was begging to go back to maven. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prashant P.
PP
Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Maven"
What do you like best about Maven?

It is the best build tool for building java applications,It simplifies by building process of the application by automating it.

It provides unified directory structure for the java application.

Configuring the dependencies becomes easy because pom.xml,it will take care of downloading just we have to keep the dependencies in pom.xml file.

Saves lot of time by automating the build process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Maven?

For every change in pom.xml file we need to update the project after each modification which sometimes becomes headache for the developer.so that latest upadate is available to your project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Chemicals
UC
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Excellent service provider on multiple levels for customer insights"
What do you like best about Maven?

Timeliness, Support, Ease of interface and feedback Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Maven?

None at this time that i can think about Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ansuya B.
AB
Web Developer
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Review of Maven!"
What do you like best about Maven?

Maven has an easy to use interface. A beginner would not find it difficult to apply it. I used it in the automation of the API. Overall, it helped in web development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Maven?

There is nothing much to say for dislike. One improvement area could be better documentation of its features. Rest other functionalities are great and one should go along with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohit K.
MK
Area Manager
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Maven is a perfect business solution provider"
What do you like best about Maven?

Maven is a world class technology company which helps in the growth and development of business. Its service quality is the best in the industry and they provide quick solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Maven?

As per my understanding there is no negative feedback about this company. The best part is that they deliver what they promise and this is the best thing in current time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Maven User Review"
What do you like best about Maven?

Ability to comprehensively manage projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Maven?

Have not found any dislikes in my experience so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Maven is one of the best among build tools, I really recommend it"
What do you like best about Maven?

When I started learning API automation testing, I was advised to use the MAVEN build tool as a fantastic build tool that provides a comfortable structure as a testing framework. And I did not regret it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Maven?

I've been using Maven for almost three months, and for now, there are no button lines that I can mention about it. It completely satisfies my needs in automation testing and is doing its job as needed. I will stick into it for sure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kenneth P.
KP
President
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Maven-One of the best online Expert Knowledge platforms available."
What do you like best about Maven?

Maven consistently provides high-quality consultation opportunities with curious, intelligent, and professional clients. The topic areas offered almost always match my fields of expertise. Payments are timely and flawlessly accurate. Maven's customer service is very responsive and supportive. I have worked with Maven for many years and look forward to new consulting opportunities in the New Year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Maven?

I haven't identified any downsides to using Maven. Everything provided works accurately and as described on the website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Razi A.
RA
Java Developer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Maven has been a pioneering tool for dependency management"
What do you like best about Maven?

It's easy to use and most of it is self explanatory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Maven?

It's still a bit verbose and strictly using XML, which is getting somewhat outdated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.