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Software Build Systems: Principles and Experience

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Split into four parts, this book provides a detailed insight into build systems, and how to ensure your own build process is as efficient and scalable as possible. Part One works as an introduction...

0 replies - 7866 views - 06/30/11 by James Sugrue in Book Reviews

Maven Love and Hate

You get away from the large, complex build.xml scenario when you move from Ant to Maven, but depending on the software you're writing, you don't save on verbosity! Right?I'm a big fan of Maven, and I'm excited about Maven 3. To be fair I've not been using it...

18 replies - 7235 views - 09/24/10 by Alex Collins in Articles

Five tips for successfully deploying Maven

Maven is one of those things that people seem to hate rather intensely, but nevertheless adoption is steadily rising in the Java community. I've worked with Maven almost daily since the 1.0 betas, and here are five things that I think could help your...

6 replies - 7275 views - 05/04/09 by Peter Backlund in News