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Apache Maven vs. Mill

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Apache Maven
Score 9.1 out of 10
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Apache Maven is an open source build automation tool.N/A
Mill
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Mill is a Java/Scala build tool developed and supported by Li Haoyi, available open source and free under an MIT license. Mill aims for simplicity by reusing familiar concepts, borrowing ideas from modern tools like Bazel. It presents an alternative to Bazel, Gradle, Maven, and SBT.N/A
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Apache MavenMill
Considered Both Products
Apache Maven
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Anonymous
Chose Apache Maven
Have evaluated and used Gradle for dependency management and build tool automation. Gradle scores well in performance, compared over with Maven.
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Anonymous
Chose Apache Maven
Ant is useful if your build is heavily based on customs scripts running in the right order. Maven greatly simplifies the process to keep track of and download build dependencies compared with Apache Ant. If your build is based on multiple custom scripts running in a specific …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Apache Maven
We evaluated many options to automate our build process including Apache Maven, Jenkins, Octopus Deploy and Azure DevOps Server. We found Apache Maven to be the easiest to use by far. We like the ability to customize our build process for individual departments. Apache Maven …
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Anonymous
Chose Apache Maven
If there are competitor products out there, I've never heard of them. This is the solution for Java dependency management. From my experience, the alternative is "no solution, create your own."
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Apache Maven
Maven was chosen out of convention as a static build tool. Personally, I prefer Gradle's less verbose syntax and modularity. Same with Bazel and Sbt.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Apache Maven
Integration with Java IDEs is fast and easy. It automatically fetches and resolves dependencies. It is a specification built tool.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Apache Maven
Maven vs Gradle

  • Maven is much more mature vs Gradle and been around for a long time. Easy to get developers. Gradle is new but adoption is fast
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Apache Maven
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 …
Ken O'Connell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ken O'Connell
Senior Release Engineer
Chose Apache Maven
It has a project object module and pre-defined structure that is better than Make and running Ant scripts for builds. There is fairly good support from the online open source community. Documentation from Apache is also very good.
Mill

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User Ratings
Apache MavenMill
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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Usability
9.0
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Support Rating
5.1
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User Testimonials
Apache MavenMill
Likelihood to Recommend
Building and automating packaging of software can be a challenging task. As the complexity of the project grows so do the dependencies on third-party artifacts. Using Maven we can define and manage the project structure centrally and it helps improve overall build times.
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Pros
  • Makes the build process simple and easy to do.
  • It provides a standard build system that can be adopted by multiple, different groups within an organization.
  • It's extensible with easy to use custom extensions which our developers take full advantage of.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Alternatives Considered
Ant is useful if your build is heavily based on customs scripts running in the right order. Maven greatly simplifies the process to keep track of and download build dependencies compared with Apache Ant. If your build is based on multiple custom scripts running in a specific order there is a lot of overhead in Maven compared to Apache Ant.
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Return on Investment
  • Maven has been the only tool for building Java apps for a long time. And it being open source has helped maximize ROI.
  • I can't think of any negative. With Gradle coming up as a newer and better technology for building, some teams are shifting towards it.
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