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Maven Studio for Eclipse gets developers up to speed


By Alex Handy
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March 19, 2010 —  (Page 1 of 2)
When a new developer is hired or a staffer is moved onto a new project, one of the more difficult aspects of the orientation process is configuring his or her IDE and desktop to handle all of the appropriate projects. Sonatype, the company created to support the Apache Maven project management effort, will release Maven Studio for Eclipse at EclipseCon next week in an effort to speed up the on-boarding process at companies that already use Maven.

Jason van Zyl, creator of the Maven project and founder of Sonatype, said that Maven Studio for Eclipse can be configured to automatically deploy an entire development environment onto a desktop with the click of a single link.

“The developer gets a link in an e-mail, and everything, including Eclipse, the plug-ins and the project, is downloaded," he said. "We're going from a process that can take from four hours to a week, down to 20 minutes.

"It also deals with all the preferences. If a team lead has gone through the process of setting up an onboarding descriptor, setting preferences, and code formatting, it means the next developer who goes to use that descriptor just gets everything set up the way the team lead set it up."

Because Maven is built on the repository model, Maven Studio for Eclipse also downloads the internal project files on which the development team is working, and it properly links the IDE to repositories where the necessary assets and dependencies are held.

Maven Studio for Eclipse is part of a larger effort by Sonatype to provide a full life-cycle stack (called Maven Enterprise Suite) to developers. Maven Studio is the first piece of that larger puzzle, but van Zyl said Sonatype will soon be releasing a new version of its Nexus Pro repository management software, along with a rebuilt version of the Hudson open-source continuous integration tool specifically designed for Maven use.

The final piece of the Suite will be a deployment tool that can bring Maven-built projects out into application servers. These additional portions of the Suite should be available by May, said van Zyl.


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