jam-buds VS maven-mvnd

Interesting discussion here. I've been very happy with Gradle for my first major JVM project, a small Kotlin API with a simple build configuration (https://github.com/thomasboyt/jam-buds/blob/master/rhiannon/...). I suppose I'm not surprised to see more complaints from folks who have worked with it on much longer-lived and _much_ more complex projects.

I've been thinking of taking a peek into Java, which I have never really written, given that I haven't been very impressed with the "Kotlin-first" JVM libraries and frameworks I've seen, and I've been pretty annoyed by the JetBrains tooling lock-in Kotlin has (there is no major VSCode/VIM-ready language server for Kotlin, for example, unlike what Red Hat has been building using Eclipse's underpinnings for Java). Is the general thinking that, for something like a Spring Boot application, it's much better to just start with Maven? I'll admit I am, aesthetically, displeased with the mountains of XML config I've seen in some tutorial articles, but I imagine it's a lot simpler to maintain over time than any DSL would be.

If you work with any JVM-based language, such as Java, Kotlin, Scala, Groovy, Clojure etc., you will most likely have come across build and dependency management tools such as Ant / Ivy, Maven, sbt, Leinengen or Gradle.

When using build tools like Maven or Gradle, you can configure environment variables in the build scripts or configuration files.

For large projects, purpose-made build tools such as Gradle and Maven are preferred for managing the directory structure since they introduce additional semantics for managing test code and other programming languages (among lots of other things). Most IDEs can integrate with these build tools easily. If you're just starting out though, I wouldn't worry too much about these, you can visit them later.

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Project Build and Management: Apache Maven 3 (3.9.5), Gradle 8 (8.3)

Apache Maven is a popular open source software to build and manage projects of Java (and also other programming languages), licensed under Apache-2.0.

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