Why use Gradle instead of Ant or Maven?

What does another build tool targeted at Java really get me?

What is a better, simpler and more modern way to build Java Web Applications compared to Maven?

I'm thinking of getting rid of Maven. It's alright for simple applications, but I'm running into problems that I can't solve, nobody else seems to be able to solve them, and even the Maven mailing list doesn't have a solution.

What is Maven artifact?

I am trying to understand Maven a little.

Can someone please explain what is an artifact and why does Maven need them?

Migrating from Maven to SBT

As you know, SBT is compatible with Maven in some way -- SBT recognizes simple Maven POMs and can use dependencies and repositories specified in them. However, SBT wiki says that, if inline dependency is specified in SBT project definition, POM will be ignored (so using both in this case is impossible):

maven support for android projects?

I want to start a project for Android but i really like to build it using Maven. Does Google provide support for Maven or plan to support it? It would be great if anybody know at least an archetype for Maven that I can use meanwhile. Thanks in advance.

Find Oracle JDBC driver in Maven repository

I want to add the oracle jdbc driver to my project as dependency (runtime scope) - ojdbc14. In MVNrepository site the dependency to put in the POM is:

What maven dependency need to have Class LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean?

In my project class LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean not found. I don't understand why? In other simple project with this class all works fine.

Maven looking for wrong archetype packaging

I successfully created an archetype. The archetype is referenced in my company's Nexus, the catalog looks well formed.

Jboss 7 auto deploy plugin cannot connect to localhost:8080

I configured the plugin in maven as shown below

Shared library for two projects

I'm running two webapps (based on Spring, JPA and JSF) on the same tomcat server. Now my WARs beginning to get big in size which I would like to change. For development I'm using the embedded jetty/tomcat plugin - maybe this is interesting.

Spring 2.5 + quartz java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/quartz/JobDetail

I have an issue with quartz library. I'm using it with spring 2.5:

Generating hashCode() and equals() when creating Java classes using Mojo Jaxb2 maven plugin

The code I'm working on is using jaxb2-maven-plugin from org.codehaus.mojo to generate Java classes from XSD schema. I'm looking for a way to automatically implement equals() and hashCode() methods for those classes, but it seems there is not a way. I know that there are other JAXB2 Maven plugins that do that (http://confluence.highsource.org/display/J2B/Home for example), but I was wondering if anyone of you encountered this issue before and if there's a way for fixing it. I'm generating the classes using the xjc goal.

How do I remove the root element of my Jetty webapp url?

I am running a Java webapp (let's call it mywebapp).