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Maven 2 License Plugin: Easily Manage License Headers

When you are developing Java projects (using Maven 2) you can be faced to either put your whole project Open Source or just a part of it. But when the time...

1 replies - 2870 views - 02/25/08 by Mathieu Carbou in Announcements

Maven Repository Managers - why we chose Archiva...and then switched to Nexus

When Archiva 1.0.1 came out, it was a big improvement on the existing Maven repositories - you could actually administer some of the configuration via the web...

9 replies - 8907 views - 02/19/08 by John Ferguson Smart in Blogs

What's Wrong with Build Systems in Java Today?

I think there's something fundamentally wrong with all build systems for Java that are available today.

26 replies - 7779 views - 02/17/08 by Steven Devijver in News

Building a Better Maven with Ant

It looks like the Ant folks are thinking of building a better Maven. I see many developers adopt Maven because they want a build system able to provide common...

15 replies - 4723 views - 02/11/08 by Matt Raible in News

Don Brown: Fixing Maven 2

Don Brown is employed at Atlassian (vendor of JIRA and Confluence) and part of the Apache open-source community. He recently submitted patches for Maven 2 to...

9 replies - 8052 views - 02/06/08 by Steven Devijver in News

Maven and Ant - the eternal debate

Howard Lewis Ship recently blogged about his woes with Maven, which has predictably triggered a long and interesting discussion/flame war.I respect Howard a...

10 replies - 4542 views - 01/31/08 by John Ferguson Smart in Blogs

Workarounds for five Maven 2 design issues

Now that the Maven 2 hunting season has been officially opened here's my top 5 of Maven 2 design issues and their workarounds:

10 replies - 4084 views - 01/31/08 by Steven Devijver in News

Is the maven repository creaking at the seams and starting to blow?

One of the things that, on paper, maven appears to do well is dependency handling. It checks down the dependency chain to verify that libraries versions match...

7 replies - 2042 views - 01/25/08 by Al Sutton in News