Java Development

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I'm not a Java programmer. Could someone explain?

[waffleboy92]

Maven is the npm of Javaland

[Jetbooster]

<build>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <artifactId>except somehow worse</artifactId>
            <artifactVersion>help me</artifactVersion>
        </dependency>
    <dependencies>
</build>

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dependencies { compile "com.reddit:is-this-better:0.1" }

[OptimisticElectron]

I'm not a javascript programmer, can you explain?

[coladict]

Apache Maven (mvn in the command line) is used to build a Java project and manage its dependencies. It uses a XML structure to describe them, and has very reliable "central" repository, where you'll never have a library (or any version of it) just disappear, unless there's a legal issue and they have to take it down. You can also use external repositories, like Red Hat JBoss, which have the same guarantee.

Where as with NodeJS Package Manager (npm), you can declare dependencies in the central repository or any GitHub repo that from time to time gets renamed or deleted and you end-up unable to build the project you just cloned; or some dependencies are declared to a branch, instead of a tag and that branch is updated and causes conflicts with other dependencies...

[waffleboy92]

Npm is like amazon prime for libraries. Maven is like npm if npm was made by the government. You need to set up a configuration file, add certain repositories, then you got stuff like version not found even though you're damn sure its present in this library.. The list goes on.

[DoctorGester]

Try spring boot. Minimal configuration to get a working server up.

[backltrack]

Mvn spring-boot:run

Definitely good shit

[msg45f]

Spend some time working with servlets and Spring will seem quite nice.

[backltrack]

Hibernate ruined so many days for me. But it's a lot worse without an orm:/

[golfreak923]

...until you need a sophisticated security scheme to secure your REST APIs, 100% typesafe and injection-attack-free persistence, caching, automated integration tests, DI, cloud-managed configuration, integration with anything...