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Re:An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java, Part 2 by mike_hearn on Friday May 09, 2014 @12:27PM (#7721721)
Maven has a lot of jargon. I also found it confusing when I started. POMS, artifacts, plugins, reactors etc ... heck I still find Maven confusing and unintuitive sometimes. Their docs are awful: typical failure mode for software that's in love with the idea of plugins.
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Re:An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java, Part 2 by eshvk on Friday May 09, 2014 @01:14PM (#7721998)
Exactly. With Make, I can delve down into the bash code easily and figure out what is happening. With Maven, there is enough overhead that I have to resort to cargo-cult googling.
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