Hi,
I'm currently in the process of reading "Better builds with Maven" and
to be honnest... I'm quite disappointed. I found "Maven Developer's
notebook" for Maven 1 excellent, and I said it a few times on this
list. It's even one of the books I used the most often for some time.
And when Vincent Massol announced at JavaPolis in last december that a
free Maven2 book was on its way, I was very excited, because I dreamt
of such a good book combined with all the marvels of Maven2 that he
demonstrated.
When I started reading "Better Builds with Maven" for the first time,
just after it was released, I was quickly annoyed by the number of
errors and the inconsistence of sample source code with what was
reproduced in the book. So I waited for the updated version with
corrected errata and I'm reading it right now... and I'm somewhat
disappointed because it puzzles me more than anything.
It starts off with a very basic introduction to what is Maven, how it
was designed... and suddenly, it jumps straight up to web services and
very elaborated samples that have nothing to do with a progressive and
pragmatic approach. Even worse: samples are full of noise concerning
exotic plugins and their configuration and the structure is very...
weird.
I'm not into free criticism, but I think feedback is important, even
when it's negative. And based on that, I would like to know if there
is a Maven2 Developer's Notebook in the pipeline, something more
pragmatic, something simpler, something that would give justice to the
beauty of Maven2. Because I'm afraid this one could frighten new users
more than encourage them to abandon their old Ant scripts. Because I
would even be ready to pay a few tens of bucks just to get the same
experience I had with the first O'Reilly volume. And because
obviously, I miss a lot of knowledge to write it myself.
Once again, don't take me wrong: this is not free criticism, this is
just my humble yet negative feedback as a user who's been using Maven1
for about a year and a half on personal and professional projects, and
who's looking for an efficient and comprehensive reference book to
migrate to Maven 2 and understand its changes pragmatically and
progressively.
--
Sébastien Arbogast
http://www.sebastien-arbogast.com
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