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Maven Advice
Hello All,
I need a little help, I am trying to persuade people in my office to make
use of Maven but in order for this to happen I need to put together a case
with Security. They have asked me 3 questions and I was wondering if anyone
could help me with answering them? Im trying to do my own research but if
anyone could give me some pointers that would be great!
1) How popular is Maven? (Companies using it, number of users, etc)
2) How many Jars/libs are available and how many do people use?
3) How regularly is it updated?
If anyone could help with this it would be very much appreciated :)
Thank you!
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Re: Maven Advice
Posted by Karl Heinz Marbaise <kh...@gmx.de>.
Hi,
> 1) How popular is Maven? (Companies using it, number of users, etc)
> 2) How many Jars/libs are available and how many do people use?
> 3) How regularly is it updated?
Take a look at that most update webinar
http://www.sonatype.com/people/2012/02/missed-the-nexus-2-0-webinar-dont-worry-we-recorded-it-just-for-you/
which gives you much information about the questions you asked for...
Kind regards
Karl Heinz Marbaise
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Re: Maven Advice
Posted by Wayne Fay <wa...@gmail.com>.
> 1) How popular is Maven? (Companies using it, number of users, etc)
Very popular. Lots of companies use it. Your competition probably uses it.
> 2) How many Jars/libs are available and how many do people use?
10s of thousands of jar artifacts are available in Central. Most
people use tens or hundreds of them in their builds.
> 3) How regularly is it updated?
This depends on the definition of the "it" you are asking about --
Maven core, Maven plugins owned by Maven development group, Maven
plugins owned by third parties, random third party artifacts published
in Central, etc.
Wayne
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Re: Maven Advice
Posted by Ron Wheeler <rw...@artifact-software.com>.
I can give some answers but not all.
On 29/02/2012 6:15 AM, sufs2000 wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I need a little help, I am trying to persuade people in my office to make
> use of Maven but in order for this to happen I need to put together a case
> with Security. They have asked me 3 questions and I was wondering if anyone
> could help me with answering them? Im trying to do my own research but if
> anyone could give me some pointers that would be great!
>
> 1) How popular is Maven? (Companies using it, number of users, etc)
Lots. Thousands and millions would be my guess.
Some are giant software houses and thousands are small 1-10 developer
companies like mine.
I think that you can get download stats from the website.
If you Google "Maven", you will get millions of responses.
> 2) How many Jars/libs are available and how many do people use?
Almost everyone who makes a jar for public consumption distributes
through Maven Central.
Go to the Maven Central Repo and look for the jars that your company uses.
http://search.maven.org/#browse
Maven Central is missing some important libraries that you have to get
yourself because of licensing restriction - ORACLE (Java libraries)
> 3) How regularly is it updated?
Any time that an organization releases a new version of their library,
the put it on Maven Central or onto the public side of their repo if
they are doing the distribution themselves (Springframework.org for
example).
All Apache projects release through Maven.
> If anyone could help with this it would be very much appreciated :)
You will want to install your own internal repo with proper access
controls so that you can share your SNAPSHOTs and releases within your
organization.
I use and recommend the free version of Nexus from Sonatype but there
are 2 other competing repository packages that work well with Maven.
Do not try to run Maven without your own repo. It is not worth the
aggravation.
Once you have your repo setup with all of the right proxies to the
software library repos that you needd, the developers do not have to
worry about finding libraries.
It sounds like your organization is concerned about security and the
security controls in Nexus should make them happy.
Ron
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