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Mykel A.

DevOps Computational Demonologist

Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 12/15/2015

"The CLM is the way to build software"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Apache Maven?

Deterministic, declarative builds are the path to greatest utility. Maven is one of the only tools that exists that provides this out of the box. The Maven component lifecycle management process is, quite simply, the safest and most effective way to build and release quality software.

There are a massive number of plugins for almost every conceivable task. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Maven?

Wow...where to start. The new direction of the polyglot maven is just a bad decision, driven by customers who dislike XML.

Setting up maven, with a repo manager and key management to do Central deploys and such, is a slightly arcane skillset. Doing it badly is why causes most of the complaining around maven.

Building plugins is pretty challenging and requires a lot of log-based debugging. The debug harness is terrible.

Plugin quality varies, but bad ones tend to die out quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What problems is Apache Maven solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our group provides assurance to the business that our output is deterministic and repeatable. Without maven, we'd be stuck with imperative build systems like sbt and gradle, which do not provide deterministic outcomes directly from their execution.

As a team, we have effectively solved the dependency management that exists with essentially all modern software and we have eliminated the barriers to repeatability and continuous integration that come with non-deterministic output. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.