Apache Maven 1.0 Released

darthcamaro writes "internetnews.com is running a story on the release of Apache Maven 1.0 this week. Maven is a very robust project-management and project comprehension tool that is unparalleled in either open source or proprietary software. 'Maven has a long history of pushing out beta after beta, so this is definitely an important release,' Jason Van Zyl, Maven architect release manager, told internetnews.com. 'For users it means that they will have something reliable now for their production builds.' From some of the comments that Van Zyl makes in the story though, it look like the upcoming 2.0 version will be the real killer app, though 1.0 is certainly nothing to sneeze at either..."

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definition

[zogger]

I would imagine there are a lot of people (like me) who had *no idea* what this is or what it is for. Here is the one paragraph definition of it FTA:

"Maven defines itself as a project-management and project-comprehension tool. Its project object model (POM) controls the development and management of a project. The POM controls builds, document creation, site publication and distribution publication and can be stored in an XML file. Maven also provides a set of tools to enable developers to automatically generate a number of critical items, such as source metrics; mailing, developer and dependency lists; software development process documentation; change logs based directly on source repository; and source cross-references."

In other words, it looks like a cross between the head cheese coding despot on any development project mailinglist and an automated webmaster thingee.... a management worker bot whatever.. it's a....

I still don't know what it is :(

Re:Maven Bile

[malloc]

That could win the best-FUD-of-the-year award. Full of scathing remarks, but nary an actual hard fact in sight.

-Malloc

Re:Bloated project mgt software killed Netscape

[radish]

Ha!

Jakarta has been running for years and is without a doubt the most important open source project in the Java world (and one of the more important anywhere). And it's part of Apache.

Apache is not just a webserver and it hasn't been for a looooong time.

A different opinion

[joeykiller]

Not everyone seems to be fond of Maven. This guy lists both pros and cons with Maven, but lands on the negative side.

I havent used Maven myself, but since this was mostly a very positive announcement, I guess it cant hurt to point to another point of view.

Java as a system facility

[Brian Blessed]

I've only used Maven in the way that it has been part of projects that I've downloaded.
Something that gives me reservations is the way that it manages library dependencies by downloading them into the project tree. On a Unix system this feels inconsistent because I prefer to manage installed software (libraries) on a system-wide basis.

It would be nice if there were a consensus on Java library dependency resolution/installation. I used to use the exellent jpackage.org on Mandrake, but now I appreciate the source compilation aspect of Gentoo (although many of Gentoo's Java packages are old). A combination of the two would be ideal.

And whilst I'm forming a wishlist, I'd also like Java applications to have greater integration with the system, not on the desktop, but in the way that multiple invocations might have less of a memory penalty (like a Java subsystem).

- Brian.

You want this then...

[Big Sean O]

Gantt Project

It's similar enough to Microsoft Project. Gantt Charts have been a project management standard for almost 100 years.

Linux, Mac OS X, Windows. It's Java, so take yer pick. GPL'd too.