maven (mā’vən) n.

A unit of time equal to the length of the first mvn call of the day. The first call typically will involve downloading new snapshot versions of many external dependent jars from the Internet. I’m going across the street to get some coffee and a muffin – back in a [...]

At Terracotta we use several dependency management systems. Our main source tree depends on Ivy and our Forge is heavily reliant on Maven.
Right now we’re starting the process towards our next release and got to the point of cutting the release branch. This of course, required our main source build system (using [...]

I went to the St. Louis Java User’s Group last night to see Eric Redmond present on Maven. Pretty good presentation and I learned a lot. Eric has been helping (Terracotta) to move into the Maven world lately so it was good to meet him in person. (Is it just me or [...]

I’ve logged a lot of time in the last few weeks hacking build stuff. I’ve written or rewritten build systems in the past at almost every job I’ve ever had. My first experiences were building C++ products using Make (and variants). Later, I wrote build systems for Java in the dark pre-Ant [...]