Why Do People Hate Maven? 62% People Do (794 opinions)

Everyday in the morning I whish it stop existing!
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I hate maven because people that uses it obligates me to use it too. I can't understand why a tool so heavy, that relies so much in downloading stuff is ... read all

by Alex on 14 Apr - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Crap; suitable only for building ivory towers
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I wasted 10 hours trying to get a 5 year old Maven project to build. It had broken URLs for nearly all the dependencies. Nexus helped a bit but the ... read all

by SP B on 06 Mar - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Senseless overengineering par excellence
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It's a perfect example of a good idea gone totally bananas because it seems the authors entirely lost focus on the original intention of making complex builds easier. It is ... read all

by zb on 06 Nov - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Hello World, Goodbye Maven
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I have wasted too much life on trying many times to download a fresh maven, and run the simplest Hello World tutorials! EVERY time there is some "Failed to " ... read all

by John R on 14 Oct - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
mvn: good idea gone wrong | the newest time waster
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1) xml is gay (too much syntactic salt and sugar + normal form issues).. ant and mvn won't convince all dev with it 2) every time it builds it connects ... read all

by amp l on 27 Jun - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
so many projects try to stuff maven down my
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so many projects try to stuff maven down my throat. I simpy dont have time to learn yet another build tool. Maven really really sucks. The documentation is so poor. read all

by User-203bcz on 02 May - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag

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so many projects try to stuff maven down my
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so many projects try to stuff maven down my throat. I simpy dont have time to learn yet another build tool. Maven really really sucks. The documentation is so poor. read all

by User-203bcz on 02 May - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
It's "JUST" a higher learning curve
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Learning curve??? I have to use maven since 2005 every now and then. And I've read a book about it back in 2006. And still, no matter what I do, ... read all

by hixxxxx on 02 Feb - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
MAVEN: a solution without a problem
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So many reasons to hate it: If I do a build today, and then use the same codebase to do a build in 12 months time, there is a very ... read all

by Muzz B on 15 Jan - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
maven-metadata.xml is not updated automatically
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I don't know if I should hate maven or Sonatype Nexus: but the fact I hate is that the metadata.xml is not updated when a new artifact is deployed. read all

by Alessandro M on 04 Oct - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Endless pain!
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I just forgot about the project I wanted to do. MAVEN has become THE PROJECT!! read all

by Ajay C on 03 Sep - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
maven wil die soon
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I think it is going to die soon read all

by Hadi E on 13 Aug - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Does not work as expected
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Does not work as expected read all

by Valentin Y on 13 Aug - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
it never works the first time
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it never works the first time read all

by Víctor D on 18 Jul - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
stupid build tool, add unnecessary difficulties to
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stupid build tool, add unnecessary difficulties to build. easy thing difficult, difficult thing impossible. done. read all

by Zhong L on 05 Jun - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Maven touts that it has dependency management but
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Maven touts that it has dependency management but in reality it shoves 500 versions of log4j and every other jar all onto your classpath. You then have to tell it ... read all

by IamNobody on 22 Mar - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Because you have to know too much about:
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Because you have to know too much about: dependencies (where, what version, which). I always get lost... read all

by Leonardo on 16 Mar - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
because maven makes the impression of handling
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because maven makes the impression of handling dependencies so 'goood' it promotes creating many many dependencies who are unneeded in many cases, often just for a few lines of reused ... read all

by User-663efo on 09 Feb - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
After 27 years as a professional software engineer
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After 27 years as a professional software engineer I can say that Maven is perhaps the biggest piece of sh*t I have ever had to deal with. There have been ... read all

by David T on 14 Jan - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Maven is symbolic of all the things that suck
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Maven is symbolic of all the things that suck about Java. Bloated, verbose, slow, arcane, crumbling under the weight of its legacy and not keeping up with the modern world. read all

by User-312xkx on 18 Dec - 1 reply - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag