Maven is a command-line tool. The screenshots are not that impressive...:)
If you know Ant (Java much improved version of make), Maven is like Ant on steroid. Maven handles intra/inter-project dependencies, project site documentation generation, unit testing, code coverage, packaging, deployment, and there's even a plugin to test whether your code conform to the coding standard.
One of the major strength of Maven is that it manages the various jar (library) dependencies in a seemless way. Multiple subprojects do not need to duplicate the jars that they depend on. You can even throw multiple subprojects into a "reactor" and it'll build them in the correct order based on their dependency graph.
It's sad that it's for Java only. I wish there's something like Maven for C/C++, or even C#, but so far I don't think I find anything yet.
By what does it mean "Best for Newbies?" The article doesn't even try to compare the user performance on a CLI to a GUI interface. The author made many subjective comments about what the users may think. A more objective experiment should be done with a control group that tries to accomplish the same thing using GUI. You then measure the task performance (like how long does it take to write an email or type a letter on either interface). Companies such as Microsoft and Apple spent a lot of money on research like this.
User interface is a field of active research and study, using actual performance comparisons on actual users, not on people reading slashdot. I think the general Linux community needs to recognize that it's not doing as much as it should. As Linux is moving to the desktop, this is becoming more and more important.
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Maven is a command-line tool. The screenshots are not that impressive...:)
If you know Ant (Java much improved version of make), Maven is like Ant on steroid. Maven handles intra/inter-project dependencies, project site documentation generation, unit testing, code coverage, packaging, deployment, and there's even a plugin to test whether your code conform to the coding standard.
One of the major strength of Maven is that it manages the various jar (library) dependencies in a seemless way. Multiple subprojects do not need to duplicate the jars that they depend on. You can even throw multiple subprojects into a "reactor" and it'll build them in the correct order based on their dependency graph.
It's sad that it's for Java only. I wish there's something like Maven for C/C++, or even C#, but so far I don't think I find anything yet.
By what does it mean "Best for Newbies?" The article doesn't even try to compare the user performance on a CLI to a GUI interface. The author made many subjective comments about what the users may think. A more objective experiment should be done with a control group that tries to accomplish the same thing using GUI. You then measure the task performance (like how long does it take to write an email or type a letter on either interface). Companies such as Microsoft and Apple spent a lot of money on research like this.
User interface is a field of active research and study, using actual performance comparisons on actual users, not on people reading slashdot. I think the general Linux community needs to recognize that it's not doing as much as it should. As Linux is moving to the desktop, this is becoming more and more important.