Comments on: Maven 2 rant http://martijndashorst.com/blog/2006/02/26/maven-2-rant/ Ramblings on Java, Wicket, cats and other stuff Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:01:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Phillip Rhodes http://martijndashorst.com/blog/2006/02/26/maven-2-rant/#comment-105 Phillip Rhodes Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:01:07 +0000 http://martijndashorst.com/2006/02/26/maven-2-rant/#comment-105 Maven still strikes me as a solution looking for a problem. It adds a lot of complexity for what is, IMO, not a lot of value. And it comes off as brittle, flaky and generally unreliable; which leads me to ask why anybody at all would use it? I'm honestly not seeing what makes maven so compelling (or even marginally attractive) to people. Maven still strikes me as a solution looking
for a problem. It adds a lot of complexity for what is, IMO, not a lot of value. And it comes off as brittle, flaky and generally unreliable; which leads me to ask why anybody at all would use it?

I’m honestly not seeing what makes maven so compelling (or even marginally attractive) to people.

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