Not much of a preference, but we have a couple of internal old-fashioned projects that are “side-by-side” projects, and rebuild-artifacts-copy jars is very tedious, though rare.

One of those I’m migrating to maven, and it’s quite ok to do mvn clean install and then rebuild the other.

if you are using maven yes. if gradle, then you need to use local maven repo and maven plugin and that maven local repo could contain other things you don't want. output classes dir as input to other project is fast. For cross developer builds, nice to have a signal when tests pass, or you say "release" and other devs can see right away. a local maven repo can do this, but without no real option.

I see a lot of the JetBrains intelij-only older projects, so keeping them in mind.

Getting close to first release... Before JavaOne.

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hm.. i am just wondering what is the purpose of that tool? What are the advantages?

hi @cy … brikk is only dependency management and not builds. it can deal with almost any conflict situation and provide an easy(ish) resolution. Including back-in time shading of dependencies that didn’t do that for you already. It doesn’t do any checking when it doesn’t need to, and builds predictable builds with a resolution file used by the build system (the results of what you decided), and it locks to that until you upgrade or change what is “installed” … it can analyze tough or non-obvios conflicts between classes you may even be aware exist. Then when the build tool runs (gradle, maven, kobalt, …) it sees it only as local libraries + the maven GA in case they do maven publishing. Brikk can then also work just with an IDE without a build tool, add libraries to intellij directly for example, managed by Brikk. Then brikk will add additinoal meta data that allows installations by short name, verion numbers that have set relationships (BOM style, or other), allow versions to be marked after the fact with other data such as “deprecated” , “DO NOT USE” , etc.

sometime in the next 1-2 weeks I’ll put out first release

had to focus on our internal release of product

ah, no worries, I just wanted to get the idea

thanks for the clarification

sure

for JetBrains style IDE-only or IDE+Ant (fetch dependencies) it is a great replacement for the manual labor.

and for others to get out of dependency hell

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