Leveraging Maven 2 for Agility

Author

Andersen, Timothy J. ; Amdor, Luke E.

Author_Institution

Iowa Student Loan, Des Moines, IA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

24-28 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

383

Lastpage

386

Abstract

Software developers at Iowa Student Loan improved their technical approach for building Java applications by switching from Apache Ant to Apache Maven. In 2003 we started using Ant. We had a lot of success with Ant and became very dependent upon it. At first, no one was comfortable switching to a new tool because Ant seemed to be working just fine. In 2007, we decided to use Maven. Throughout this transition, it was necessary for us to overcome many obstacles including the learning curve and the infrastructure needs. This report illustrates the problems we had with our Ant builds and identifies why we decided to switch to Maven. Finally, it acknowledges the benefits we have realized and describes how Maven has augmented our agility.

Keywords

Java; computer science education; project management; software development management; Apache Ant; Apache Maven; Iowa student loan; Java application; infrastructure needs; learning curve; project management; software developer; Application software; Board of Directors; Cities and towns; Databases; Educational institutions; Feedback; Java; Logic; Switches; Testing; Maven; Maven2; build; dependencies;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Agile Conference, 2009. AGILE '09.

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3768-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AGILE.2009.20

Filename

5261053