The case against Maven?

Posted by Asgeir S. Nilsen on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Asgeir S. Nilsen
Published on 2010-03-12T11:02:35Z Indexed on 2010/03/12 11:07 UTC
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Time and time again I've read and heard people frustrated over Maven and how complicated it is. And that it's much easier to use Ant to build code.

However, in order to:

  1. Compile code
  2. Run tests
  3. Package a deployable unit

This is all you need from Maven:

<project>
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>type something here</groupId>
  <artifactId>type something here</artifactId>
  <version>type something here</version>
</project>

What would be the corresponding minimal Ant build file?

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