Why Maven doesn’t work for me.

I’ve been meaning to do a follow up post on Maven for quite a while. I received several emails regarding my previous post from people asking how we’re using it. I must admit, it looked promising initially, but as we got into the specifics, it looked less workable for building commercial software. Here I hope to outline some of the reasons I suggest that Maven may not be for you.

A Brief History of XML

Evolution of XML

Extensible Markup Languages (XML) history begins with the development of Standardised Generalised Markup Language (SGML) by Charles Goldfarb, along with Ed Mosher and Ray Lorie in the 1970s while working at IBM (Anderson, 2004). SGML despite the name is not a mark-up language in it’s own right, but is a language used to specify mark-up languages. The purpose of SGML was to create vocabularies which could be used to mark up documents with structural tags. It was imagined at the time, that certain machine readable documents should remain machine readable for perhaps decades.