http://www.the-arm.com A weblog about Methodologies for Development Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:01:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.the-arm.com/2009/04/maven-facts/ http://www.the-arm.com/2009/04/maven-facts/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:27:07 +0000 toni http://www.the-arm.com/?p=382

Maven will never tell you which phases or goals are available in the pom, you have to guess or check the on-line documentation

Maven by default uses text files to dump the test execution results, if you want to see what’s happening on the console you have to call it with -Dsurefire.useFile=false

Maven can skip the executions of the tests (sometimes might be useful!) call it with -Dmaven.test.skip=true

Maven knows what inheritance is (and therefore claims that it’s object oriented… grrr…) so if you can’t find where some property is defined have a look up on the parent

Maven is based on XML but you won’t write as much XML as with Ant

Maven can create Eclipse project files and even download the sources for you (mvn eclipse:eclipse -DdownloadSources=true)

Maven downloads stuff from the internet  (#1 failure reason for 99% Maven presentations) but can be run in offline mode (if you had a sucessfull install previously), try mvn -o

Maven uses repositories, but since not all the libs in the world are in repositories you should setup a local repository (Archiva works well)

Maven uses repositories, but since you don’t want to hog all your company bandwith you should setup a local repository

Maven goes great with stuff like Hudson, Sonar

Maven build profiles are really cool

Maven is not silver bullet but I’ll never go back to Ant

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