[dysinger]

Seems like the typical reaction seen over and over. People love to hate maven. It always goes like this:

1) try maven but don't bother to RTFM 2) run away with your hair on fire and back to cave-man tools like Make, Rake & Ant 3) ignore dependency management 4) re-invent the build script for _EVERY_ project you start. 5) ??? 6) profit!!!

You only ever hear rants like this from people who don't spend the time to learn maven. It's not that hard. This is just rants.

[hello_moto]

Rant or not you hit the jackpot.

Most Maven users are "forced" to use it when they join a company or a project; they did not pick up Maven and learn it on their own time.

[bokchoi]

It sounds like the author has had quite a bit of experience with Maven and most likely has RTFM.

[zenocon]

Sounds much more like a rant to me. The complaint about the war file size is a prime example. There are several quick / easy ways to analyze this and fix it / force it to generate exactly what you want. None of that is particularly advanced mvn black magic.

It sounds like he chose to just give up on the tool, spend a lot of time ranting about it on a blog, and go back to what he was familiar with.