Monday, January 24, 2005

Maven

A sample chapter on Managing projects with Maven is available for download on sandcastsoftware from Richard HighTowers book, Java Tools.

Its a good start if you want to know more about this powerful and modular tool which is Maven.Its really cool to use Maven and the scripting language for the builds, Jelly is quiet easy to comprehend. Futhermore it comes with an installer for Windows for developers who really dont like to spend time copying jars and classpaths here and there.

Maven uses POM files and meta-data filled xml files to keep track of all your artifacts along with using one central repository for storing these artifacts and other generated artifacts during the build.

I really appreciate the Maven site plugin which allows you to generate accurate and concise information on your codes.In one build you can know your developer activity , file activity (from information obtained from your Code Repository) and it also generates PMD , CheckStyle and metrics report to have a close eye on the quality of your code.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

pretty nice

Anonymous said...

pretty nice