jtukkine

I highly recommend Joda Time. It is the way things should have been done in the Java API in the beginning (this is of course easy to say afterwards ;). The documentation and examples are clear and the component is easy to use and integrates easily with e.g. Hibernate.

Thank you for such a good project!

- jtukkine

Maven 2 helped to uniform my previous company's Java projects significantly. It enforces the use of same practices in every project starting from directory structure to the use of external components. Most importantly, moving a developer from a project to another was a bit less painful because of all this.

The main problems have related to disperse and sometimes outdated overall documentation and examples, poorly documented or "snapshot" must-use plugins and maven repository handling. All of these issues have been addressed lately - special thanks to the writers of the Maven 2 book!

Maven 2 is a significant upgrade in simplicity and usability compared to its predecessor Maven 1. However, it is still not crystal clear always how it handles its transitive dependencies of external components or how the build process actually works ;) Of course, the problem is not trivial.

Despite my slight criticism, I like to thank all the people working for Maven 2, it is a great project and I recommend it as a working solution to get your build process to a new level after Ant, Makefile - not to name custom shell scripts!

BR,

- jtukkine