Sadly, the headline also left out the rather key information that this tool is for Java projects only.
I was quite looking forward to a revolutionary project management tool... alas, this one is yet another myopic product of the "Java is the whole universe" generation.
Java is great... but there is a larger world out there you know.
Is it really Java only? It's written in Java yes, it supports many common Java paradigms - would it not be fairly simple to use doxygen rather than javadoc, gcc rather than javac, nunit rather than junit etc etc.
Ant allows this, and I understand Maven to be an evolution of build tools, so I don't see why it should not be project-development-technology-agnostic.
It's technically possible but part of the point of the thing is that you don't have to spend forever writing build scripts to get going. So once there's a set of users writing plugins with better support for (e.g.) C# and C++, sure it'll be agnostic.
Right now it's effectively a Java tool since most of the plugins are for Java (jar, javac, javadoc, junit, etc).
Link to project (Score:5, Informative)
http://maven.apache.org/ [apache.org]
Not the only thing left out: it's for Java only (Score:5, Informative)
I was quite looking forward to a revolutionary project management tool
Java is great
Re:Not the only thing left out: it's for Java only (Score:5, Insightful)
Is it really Java only? It's written in Java yes, it supports many common Java paradigms - would it not be fairly simple to use doxygen rather than javadoc, gcc rather than javac, nunit rather than junit etc etc.
Ant allows this, and I understand Maven to be an evolution of build tools, so I don't see why it should not be project-development-technology-agnostic.
Re:Not the only thing left out: it's for Java only (Score:5, Informative)
Right now it's effectively a Java tool since most of the plugins are for Java (jar, javac, javadoc, junit, etc).