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  • Your experience mirrors my own [happygiraffe.net].

    In other “maven sucks” news, I tried to help out somebody in my office on a Maven project today. I discovered that web development has turned into:

    • Change a line in a file in Eclipse
    • Run Maven to build a package and install it to the local repository (~/.m2).
    • Run Maven to build a war file and run "jetty":http://www.mortbay.org/ with it.

    This whole process takes around 3 minutes. There's nothing like “edit page / hit refresh”. It's taking productivity to a new low.

    Now don't get me wrong. Having done a bit of Java work, I've got a lot more respect for it than when I started. But there's a lot of stupidity out there in the Java world, and Maven is a big part of it.

    • I had been looking at it and I am starting to see a lot of areas Maven can suck you into a big black hole. I think I will put the book down now.
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