What Maven Good At...

As usual, somebody at JUG-ID started a flame by throwing a fireball: "Maven is a junk!".

The most popular greeting in the JUG-ID is: "Salam hangat," (or translated to "Warm greeting,"). Well, I think that the most popular greeting has reasons for it. One of the things that makes the mailing list become 'warm' because there are lots of flames around, such as "Java vs .NET", "Sun sucks", "Maven sucks", "Vacuum cleaner sucks" also!, etc.

At some point then we realized that the flame thrower has points. And also some people thinks "JUG-ID sucks" as well. At least at some times ago I think that way ("JUG-ID sucks").

Now, I try list down what Maven Good At...
(and on the next post, "Why Maven sucks"... as well)

1) Reducing the Project Lead Time
2) Force project to follow certain rules
3) Dependency management
4) One place to change dependency
5) No need to store jar files in the versioning system anymore
6) (This list will grow...)