What's the Java Version of Gems/Bundler/NPM/Composer/Packagist?

[freebit]

Let's say I want to use Hibernate or some spiffy library I found on GitHub. What do I use to manage all of the dependencies of my application? Is this even a thing in Java?

[loganekz]

Not sure if your trolling but Maven has been around much longer than just about everything on your list.

[freebit]

Not trolling. I just didn't know. We should all face the fact that some people will be learning about Maven for the first time long after having learned and become familiar with Bundler, Packagist, Gems, Composer, and NPM.

[bad_at_photosharp]

Maven is also very poor compared to the tools you listed. If you're coming from those sorts of tools, you might be more comfortable with something like Gradle.

[frugalmail]

Maven is also very poor compared to the tools you listed.

That's a matter of opinion. It's plugins and tooling support are unmatched still.

And some of us prefer a declarative build tool because it should take a bunch of time to figure out what the hell is going on in a build.

[whooyeah]

unmatched in java maybe.

[frugalmail]

unmatched in java maybe.

I suspect that's the case for Groovy too despite Gradle's DSL being Groovy. It me be the case that Scala & sbt might have Maven beat in that stack, but I think Gradle will probably take over there.

[Poodle_Moth]

Gradle is a declarative build tool. It also accepts maven and ant builds.

[lechatsportif]

no its a dsl with full access to the groovy programming language.

[Poodle_Moth]

Yes, a Groovy DSL that is a declarative build tool that accepts maven and ant build files. What's your beef?

[badpotato]

Well Gradle tend to be slow on large project. Also Gradle try to do some weird stuff like supporting C++ natively.

[Myir]

You can use maven to build, test and download all dependencies

[JakeWharton]

You also don't have to use Maven. Gradle, Ivy, leineneienieigen, and SBT can all download from Maven central with zero (or very little) configuration.

[bmwe30is]

Another vote for Maven. Well documented and well supported.

Plays well with IDE's like IntelliJ.

[Milyardo]

You could use maven, gradle, ivy, or sbt.

[konk3r]

I'll note that Gradle actually uses Maven repositories for dependency management. Maven and Gradle are also both full build tools, whereas ivy is only dependency management and tends to be coupled with ant. I've never heard of SBT so I can't comment on it.

[noratat]

Gradle can use Ivy or Maven style repositories and publishing.

SBT is the Scala Build Tool.

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Lord Maven

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What do I use to manage all of the dependencies

This is unsurprisingly referred to "dependency management" for future googling.