maven-mvnd VS Polyglot for Maven

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.

4.0.0 io.github.mfaisalkhatri selenium-pagefactory-demo 1.0-SNAPSHOT jar selenium-pagefactory-demo http://maven.apache.org UTF-8 4.11.0 7.8.0 3.11.0 3.1.2 17 UTF-8 testng.xml org.seleniumhq.selenium selenium-java ${selenium.java.version} org.testng testng ${testng.version} test org.apache.maven.plugins maven-compiler-plugin ${maven.compiler.version} ${java.release.version} ${maven.source.encoding} true org.apache.maven.plugins maven-surefire-plugin ${surefire-version} test false usedefaultlisteners false ${suite-xml} ${argLine}

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.

The affected lines are http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">

And you don't even need to use XML with Polyglot Maven

https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven

If you prefer the shorter alternative, you might want to use the Polyglot XML extension https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven/tree/master/polyglot-xml

Here you go: https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven

Fun fact, POM files can be in formats other than XML (although I have no idea if IJ would tolerate such shenanigans): https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven/blob/polyglot-0.4.8/polyglot-yaml/src/test/resources/snakeyaml/pom.yaml

There is a certain argument to be made for user ergonomy. Many developers are drawn to Gradle and friends, or to work with polyglot Maven, because they support a more concise syntax. This is not necessarily a contradiction with Maven's Goals!

I wished they‘d finally embrace polyglot maven https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven. pom.yaml rule the world.

It seems merely adding a file to the .mvn directory will do as you wish: https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven#usage

I have avoided that road because it's one more thing that is a snowflake in the very area where I don't want to blazing trails. But I have personally tried their approach before and can confirm it does work as advertised. I can't recall if IJ lost its mind over pulling a stunt like that, but arguably if it did, then filing a YouTrack is an appropriate next step