Should Sun embrace Maven?

Published: 4:12 PM GMT+12, Sunday, 14 December 2008 under: technology
java  development  modular  maven 

With all the talk from Sun about bringing a focus to modularity in the JDK via Project Jigsaw, I wonder how things would shape up if a modular build tool such as Apache Maven was also adopted.

I've never looked at the JDK sources/build process and I suspect moving the current build to Maven would be an extremely unpleasant and painful process, but once thats done I if such a build tool/process designed for modularity would help, or hinder such an effort moving forward.

Comments (2)

glassfish v3 already uses maven, fwiw.

left by Justin Lee . Monday, 15 December 2008 7:33 AM

No.

Just no.

left by Ugh . Sunday, 14 December 2008 7:25 PM
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