Java Build Systems - a sad state of affairs
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Java Build Systems - a sad state of affairs
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Re: Java Build Systems - a sad state of affairs
#2The article makes no mention of the solutions implemented in the newer languages on the JVM:
- Groovy has Gant (http://gant.codehaus.org/)
- Clojure has Lancet (http://github.com/stuarthalloway/lancet)
Both of these avoid the "XML tag soup" problem.
Re: Java Build Systems - a sad state of affairs
#3"But Maven uses XML too" - since Maven 3 you can use Groovy, JRuby & Scala too.
Re: Java Build Systems - a sad state of affairs
#4The article makes no mention of the solutions implemented in the newer languages on the JVM: - Groovy has Gant ( http://gant.codehaus.org/ ) - Clojure has Lancet ( http://github.com/stuarthalloway/lancet ) Both of these avoid the "XML tag soup" problem.
You might want to add
-Scala has sbt
Which is actually pretty interesting, even if you need to mess with the defaults.
Re: Java Build Systems - a sad state of affairs
#5The article makes no mention of the solutions implemented in the newer languages on the JVM: - Groovy has Gant ( http://gant.codehaus.org/ ) - Clojure has Lancet ( http://github.com/stuarthalloway/lancet ) Both of these avoid the "XML tag soup" problem.
Another one that's missing from the discussion is Gradle.
Re: Java Build Systems - a sad state of affairs
#6The article makes no mention of the solutions implemented in the newer languages on the JVM: - Groovy has Gant ( http://gant.codehaus.org/ ) - Clojure has Lancet ( http://github.com/stuarthalloway/lancet ) Both of these avoid the "XML tag soup" problem.
try groovy's gradle you will be amazed..gradle.org
Re: Java Build Systems - a sad state of affairs
#7Is there any build system that doesn't have it's problems?
edit: The discussion on Reddit points out many details about Maven that the author has gotten wrong: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dmu26/java_buil...
Re: Java Build Systems - a sad state of affairs
#8Actually I have my own contribution to this space:
http://ebuild.origo.ethz.ch/wiki/ebuild
Although unfortunately the documentation is not ready yet, it is quite capable and is designed to solve what I perceive to be critical short comings of maven.
Re: Java Build Systems - a sad state of affairs
#9There is buildr as well
It is built on ruby and follows the Convention over Configuration route. Which keeps the build file quite small.
It has hooks into maven and can be run on jruby or ruby
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