Likelihood to Recommend Maven is great if you have an application with a lot of third-party dependencies and don’t want each developer to keep track of where the dependency can be downloaded. It’s also a great way to make it easy for a new developer to be able to build the application. It’s less suitable for simple projects without any third-party dependencies.
Read full review While deploying docker images on kubernetes pods I must say Codefresh helped me a lot. It has made my work easy as an Automation tool. I can setup a simple pipelines to automate my build for kubernetes. but for more complex pipelines Codefresh need some improvement
Read full review Pros If you are building in the Java ecosystem, then Maven definitely has the biggest repository of artifacts needed for such projects. It has a very simple to use extendable architecture. Everything is configurable through the Pom.xml file which is very simple to follow. Read full review Continuous Integration and Continuous Development. we can setup jobs that automatically triggered when there is any changes in code and starts building up the build images automatically and then pushing images to Container Registry We can involve Version control system like github, bitbucket, gitlab etc for integration of Codefresh with our code stored in these Version control systems. On the failure of any jobs/pipeline Codefresh can also send Notification on our email. Read full review Cons Maven provides a very rigid model that makes customization tedious and sometimes impossible. While this can make it easier to understand any given Maven build, as long as you don’t have any special requirements, it also makes it unsuitable for many automation problems. Maven has few, built-in dependency scopes, which forces awkward module architectures in common scenarios like using test fixtures or code generation. There is no separation between unit and integration tests Read full review With Codefresh it's become hard to handle complex pipelines Need to focus more on Documentation part UI can be more attractive Security can be more increased Read full review Usability The overall usability of Apache Maven is very good to us. We were able to incorporate it into our company's build process pretty quickly. We deployed it to multiple teams throughout the entire enterprise. We got good feedback from our developers stating that Apache Maven has simplified their build process. It also allowed to to standardize the build process for the entire enterprise, thus ensure that each development team is using the same, consistent process to build code.
Read full review Support Rating I can't speak to the support, as I've never had issues. Apache Maven "just works," and errors were user errors or local nexus errors. Apache Maven is a great build/dependency management tool. I give it a 9/10 because occasionally the error message don't immediately indicate a solution...but again, those errors were always user or configuration errors, and the Maven documentation is extensive, so I don't find fault in Maven, but in its users.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Ant, Maven's opposing framework, is often a point of comparison. Although Ant does not require formal conventions, it is procedural in the sense that you must tell Ant exactly what to do and when. It also lacks a lifecycle, along with goal definition and dependencies. Maven, on the other hand, requires less work as it knows exactly where your source code is as long as the pom.xml file is generated.
Read full review It's very scalable It is cost effective It easily get integrated with third party tools It easily get integrated with Kubernetes Docker.
Read full review Return on Investment Apache Maven is an open source product from the Apache Software Foundation. Being free to use without any licensing constraints, we've been very happy with this product thus far. The software build and packaging times for our applications have improved greatly since our use of this tool. Read full review Positive: As an Automation tools I must say it has reduced manual labour , reduced errors and improved quality of work. It easily get integrated with third party tools which increases ease ness in our work Negative: Although being a very good tools in CI/CD It requires improvement in UI, it's speed, security, optimization. Read full review ScreenShots