Why developers like Apache Maven

What is Apache Maven?

Maven allows a project to build using its project object model (POM) and a set of plugins that are shared by all projects using Maven, providing a uniform build system. Once you familiarize yourself with how one Maven project builds you automatically know how all Maven projects build saving you immense amounts of time when trying to navigate many projects.

Apache Maven is a tool in the Java Build Tools category of a tech stack.

Apache Maven is an open source tool with 4.1K GitHub stars and 2.6K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Apache Maven's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Apache Maven?

Companies

590 companies reportedly use Apache Maven in their tech stacks, including CRED, Accenture, and Intuit.

CRED

Accenture

Intuit

deleokorea

Zalando

Groww

Platform

N26

Zillow

Developers

1816 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Apache Maven.

Atlassian

Wishlist

Marin Software

DollarScript Stack

Java4us

Getback GPS

GAMY

Everything

Livin'X

Apache Maven Integrations

SonarQube, Log4j, TestNG, ScalaTest, and Sonatype Nexus are some of the popular tools that integrate with Apache Maven. Here's a list of all 33 tools that integrate with Apache Maven.

SonarQube

Log4j

TestNG

ScalaTest

Sonatype Nexus

Flyway

Buddy

Jersey

Asciidoctor

Pros of Apache Maven

138

Dependency management

Necessary evil

I’d rather code my app, not my build

Publishing packaged artifacts

Convention over configuration

Modularisation

Consistency across builds

Prevents overengineering using scripting

Runs Tests

Lot of cool plugins

Extensible

Hard to customize

Runs on Linux

Runs on OS X

Slow incremental build

Inconsistent buillds

Undeterminisc

Good IDE tooling

Decisions about Apache Maven

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Apache Maven in their tech stack.

Joshua Dean Küpper

CEO at Scrayos UG (haftungsbeschränkt) · Oct 30, 2016 | 2 upvotes · 330.3K views

Shared insights

Scrayos UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

All Java-Projects are compiled using Apache Maven. We prefer it over Apache Ant and Gradle as it combines lightweightness with feature-richness and offers basically all we can imagine from a software project-management tool and more. We're open however to re-evaluate this decision in favor of Gradle or Bazel in the future if we feel like we're missing out on anything.

Hasmukh patel

Jun 15, 2021 | 4 upvotes · 101.3K views

Needs advice

fastlane

Gradle

and

Apache Maven

Hi, I am doing automation for mobile app (iOS & Android). Currently, I am using Apache Maven build tool. Can someone tell me which out of these 3 tools is the best? (fastlane, Gradle, Maven). Apart from that, we are using CircleCI.

waheed khan

Associate Java Developer at txtsol · Nov 1, 2021 | 7 upvotes · 30.8K views

Needs advice

Amazon EC2

and

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

I am working on a full-stack application [Spring Boot (Java), AngularJS 7, MySQL] and Apache Maven as a build tool => I need to deploy and host this web app on AWS. I searched about it and find out I have to use PAAS. There are 2 things. 1- AWS Elastic Beanstalk 2- Amazon EC2 my question is that what services should I use to deploy and host my web app.

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Blog Posts

Scaling Wix to 60M Users - From Monolith to Microservices

May 29 2015 at 9:25AM

Wix

+35

19055

Apache Maven's Features

Simple project setup that follows best practices - get a new project or module started in seconds
Consistent usage across all projects means no ramp up time for new developers coming onto a project
Superior dependency management including automatic updating, dependency closures (also known as transitive dependencies)
Able to easily work with multiple projects at the same time
A large and growing repository of libraries and metadata to use out of the box, and arrangements in place with the largest Open Source projects for real-time availability of their latest releases
Extensible, with the ability to easily write plugins in Java or scripting languages
Instant access to new features with little or no extra configuration
Ant tasks for dependency management and deployment outside of Maven

Apache Maven Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Apache Maven?

Jira

Jira's secret sauce is the way it simplifies the complexities of software development into manageable units of work. Jira comes out-of-the-box with everything agile teams need to ship value to customers faster.

Jenkins

In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.

Gradle

Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development. If you are building, testing, publishing, and deploying software on any platform, Gradle offers a flexible model that can support the entire development lifecycle from compiling and packaging code to publishing web sites.

Apache Ant

Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like Make, without Make's wrinkles and with the full portability of pure Java code.

Apache Tomcat

Apache Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations.

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