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Top 11 Java build-management Projects
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Project mention: Java News Roundup: Key Updates on Jakarta NoSQL, Spring 7.0, Maven 4.0, and LangChain4j | dev.to | 2025-03-17
For more details, the release notes are available here.
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Apache Maven is a foundational build automation tool primarily used for Java projects, though its principles have influenced tools across other languages. Born from the Apache Software Foundation, Maven simplifies the build process through its concept of a Project Object Model (POM). This pom.xml file declaratively describes your project's configuration, dependencies, and build lifecycle.
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Maven uses a plugin architecture; in the above command, the plugin is maven-dependency-plugin. A plugin hosts several related goals. Here, it's analyze.
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Project mention: Mill: A Better Build Tool for Java, Scala, & Kotlin | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-16
I haven't used it myself, but I know there is a plugin for a Maven build cache. It should work well for incremental builds where only a few files change
https://maven.apache.org/extensions/maven-build-cache-extens...
> Incremental builds work on the modified part of the project graph part only
> Subtree support for multimodule projects builds part of the codebase in isolation
> Version normalization supports project version agnostic caches
> Project state restoration (partial) avoids repeating expensive tasks like code generation
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Committers designed the analyzer in 2007: here's how it looked like then. Spring Boot started later, in 2010. For this reason, the analyzer didn't take deferred class loading in annotations. Note that this is still not the case; the project doesn't get a lot of love.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source build-management projects in Java? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apache Maven | 4,756 |
| 2 | maven-mvnd | 3,265 |
| 3 | maven-surefire | 441 |
| 4 | maven-wrapper | 224 |
| 5 | maven-compiler-plugin | 223 |
| 6 | maven-dependency-plugin | 164 |
| 7 | maven-build-cache-extension | 143 |
| 8 | maven-indexer | 68 |
| 9 | maven-dependency-analyzer | 41 |
| 10 | hashver-maven-plugin | 13 |
| 11 | pom-visualizer-maven-plugin | 3 |
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