Apache Maven Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Reviews & Insights

Score9.9 out of 10

58 Reviews and Ratings

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Pros

Simple Hierarchical Structure: Apache Maven offers a straightforward hierarchical structure for building and packing software artifacts, which has been positively mentioned by many users. This feature simplifies project organization and management effectively.

Different Configurations for Development and Production: Users have appreciated the ability of Apache Maven to support separate configurations for development and live production environments. This feature enables easy testing of applications and ensures reliable consistency throughout different stages of the project.

Easy Dependency Management: Multiple reviewers have highlighted the ease of adding and resolving dependencies in Apache Maven. This feature simplifies the process of managing external libraries and ensures that all required dependencies are included in the project.

Apache Maven Reviews

6 Reviews

Professional, Scientific, and Technical ServicesInformation Technology & Services4Management Consulting1Marketing & Advertising1

Maven a reliable cog in our delivery process.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 20, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Maven for our build artifacts. It is a part of the pipeline for getting our code built and running in production. This works as an important cog in the delivery of new functionality and code to production. It is reliable and one of the parts of our build infrastructure that we don't have to be concerned about.

Pros

Reliable
Consistency
Good for documentation.

Cons

I cannot think of anything to put here.

Likelihood to Recommend

Getting products built in an internal environment and out to the production environment. This is our most commonly used scenario. This might not be as useful as a solution if you are looking to architect a solution that requires lots of vendor support. This is a simple tool to use if you are willing to architect it yourself.

Dan Soble

VP Engineering in Engineering at Veeva Systems (Information Technology & Services, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Maven is a best build tool

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

September 6, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a build tool, we are using Maven with our Java-based project to add the libraries and dependencies in the project. With the help of that, we need not explicitly download the various jar and put it into our project. This makes our project easy and manageable and also use a version of the project build using Maven.

Pros

Add and resolve dependencies
Create a single or multiple package for whole project code
Manage project versioning and metadata

Cons

All are fantastic, I have been using this from last 8 years

Likelihood to Recommend

A project that we want to manage via libraries. Import and export various libraries and classes from one project to another. Add and download the project dependencies. Project structure or folder hierarchy. Various goals and parameters for different types of builds. Everything gets handled using a simple POM.xml file.

Mohammad Rashid Raza

Technical Lead in Information Technology at GSPANN (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Maven for build automation

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

April 28, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Apache Maven is used as a build automation tool and it simplifies the projects build process, dependency, and documentation. Apache Maven is able to solve many problems as below:
1. Software versioning.
2. Dependency management like includes the jars and other dependencies.
3. It has been integrated with the git and Jenkins CICD pipeline for the automatic build.

Pros

Software versioning
CICD integration
Dependency management

Cons

How to use tutorials for beginners, learning curve should be easy
Sometime understanding the POM is diffecult
Only works with java

Likelihood to Recommend

We are using the java langauge to develop our application hence Apache Maven is one of the best suitable build tools available. Our use case has been Project and dependency management. Building the jar files Software versioning. Useful in maintaining consistency in the project.

Sharang Dwivedi

Database Engineer in Information Technology at Giesecke+Devrient (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Build automation for those who like XML

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

January 21, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Maven is used across the org to build JVM based applications as well as few non-JVM ones which utilize the exec and release plugins to adhere to semantic version requirements. It is mainly used to solve build dependencies between internal and external applications.

Pros

Build resolution.
Sometimes useful error messages.

Cons

Lots of static XML.
Copypasta.

Likelihood to Recommend

Builds JVM applications very well. Wouldn't recommend for other types of applications. Many useful plugins make sure applications build and run correctly, at the expense of overly verbose XML.

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology (Information Technology and Services company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Apache Maven, Complete Review

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

January 22, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

At ARM marketing firm when we started working on our in-house custom-built applications and delivering web solutions to our clients, we decided to go with Java based web applications since our developers had the most experience in that domain. Apache Maven is an Open Source tool from the Apache Software Foundation that we use for building and packaging our applications.

Pros

Apache Maven uses a simple hierarchical structure for building and packing a software artifact.
Different configurations of the software can be used while working on the dev server as opposed to a live production environment. This makes testing the application very easy.

Cons

One of the issues with building software using Apache Maven is that its cache resolution is not optimal. It pulls down all the artifacts onto the developer's local machine and can sometimes result in conflicts.
The build process can vary in time and gets progressively longer as the project's complexity increases.

Likelihood to Recommend

In software development one of the major headaches for companies is managing third party libraries and dependencies. Apache Maven makes it a breeze on that front. We can lock in the specific versions of the libraries that we are currently using and can upgrade them at our own convenience.

heather collins

senior developer in Engineering at ARM Marketing (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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Complex XML configuration

Rating: 5 out of 10

Incentivized

January 17, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is very easy to understand. Being popular in the open source community, various open source projects can be built using Maven. We use Maven for developing in-house projects. All Java IDEs provide support for Maven and it's compatible with any Java IDE. Using Maven, one can reuse code and resources.

Pros

Reuse code and resources
Compatible with a wide range of Java IDEs
It helps to download resources over the network.

Cons

Configuration is written into XML which is cumbersome.
New versions of libraries are added daily, It is very difficult for Maven to keep track of the dependancies.
It's inflexible and overcomplicated.

Likelihood to Recommend

For small projects, Maven can identify unused and transitive dependencies. For large projects, as it contains a large number of XML files which makes it difficult to understand and maintain. Maven makes your project build on a network connection. Not enough documentation on the web for beginners. Debugging is not easy as it is difficult to find bugs in your code.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (Management Consulting company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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