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Maven is a "bad example" - it's horrible. Everybody agrees.

• therpe1 10y ago
  Maven is great. Not perfect but it's far better than the alternatives. And every single time I've seen somebody come along and insist they have a better alternative the result is always worse or requires significant custom development. As for the idea that Java IDEs like Eclipse and IntelliJ are these "big heavy tools" -- it's just silly and outdated. It might've been true 15 years ago. (Flashback to 2004 and getting a cup of coffee while Eclipse starts.) These days Eclipse and IntelliJ launch instantly and feel just as lightweight as the command line. I'm often running multiple IDEs at the same time with no performance impact. Any Java shop that's any good doesn't depend on an IDE. The idea that you can't do anything without an IDE is wrong. A team doing continuous integration and deployment is damn well going to make sure that everything that needs to be done can be done from the command line. Nobody cares what you use to edit code on your own computer as long as you don't use tabs!