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Support alternative markup for Apache Maven POM files

18 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 0 stories, 18 comments · first 2015-05-07 · latest 2026-07-09

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  1. With Polyglot Maven, you don't even need it in Maven either! https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven
    comment by kitd · 2026-07-09 · in Apache Shiro security framework releases 3.0.0
  2. …experience[1], someone made a plugin that allowed writing pom files in languages other than XML: https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven/tree/polyglot-0.7.2... With an especial nod to https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven/tree/polyglot-…
    comment by mdaniel · 2024-10-28 · in Mill: A fast JVM build tool for Java and Scala
  3. Yeah, some kind people over Reddit also shared some nice repositiories like this one: https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven Which would have been great if I found it earlier, since it allows you to use maven but write Java. The only…
    comment by Osiris-Team · 2024-07-10 · in 1JPM: A Maven/Gradle alternative in a single Java file
  4. And with Polyglot Maven [1] you don't even have to deal with all the XML markup either. [1] - https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven
    comment by kitd · 2024-01-05 · in Modern Java/JVM Build Practices
  5. And you don't even need to use XML with Polyglot Maven https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven
    comment by kitd · 2023-10-26 · in Was Rust Worth It?
  6. It seems merely adding a file to the .mvn directory will do as you wish: https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven#usage I have avoided that road because it's one more thing that is a snowflake in the very area where I don't want to blazing…
    comment by mdaniel · 2021-04-11 · in Gradle 7.0
  7. You could do something like that with polygot-maven. https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven
    comment by papercrane · 2018-02-10 · in Graal: How to use the new JVM JIT compiler in real life [video]
  8. …intended to be configured via a GUI. If you want to configure it directly, try Polyglot Maven at https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven which is a very light wrapper around Maven enabling you to use many other languages instead, e.g.…
    comment by vorg · 2017-05-09 · in JDK 9 modules voted down by EC
  9. …which is the same build engine but with a variety of non-XML syntaxes. The YAML one is quite nice: https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven/blob/master/poms/po... That way you get simple syntax and a simple model, but still with lots of…
    comment by mike_hearn · 2016-08-09 · in A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012)
  10. …As an example of a loop: https://github.com/jruby/jruby/blob/8e29ae1302e7aa989b8808f7... [1] -- https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven
    comment by nirvdrum · 2016-02-15 · in Kotlin 1.0 Released: Pragmatic Language for JVM and Android
  11. …Polyglot-Maven enables not only Groovy, but also Ruby, Clojure, or Scala to be used with Maven. [1] https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven
    comment by vorg · 2016-01-09 · in Ask HN: What are the best web build and deploy automation tools?
  12. Because Maven (the tool) offers XML as the language, we can put any other language atop it, e.g. with https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven we can use Clojure, Groovy, Ruby, or Scala as the language. Gradle offers only Groovy, nothing…
    comment by vorg · 2015-09-11 · in Java 9: The State of the Module System
  13. …not only allows us to use Groovy, but also Clojure, Scala, and Ruby to configure its builds. [1] https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven
    comment by vorg · 2015-08-18 · in Official Android 6.0 SDK and Final M Preview
  14. …Because Maven uses XML, any programming language can sit on top and be used as a configuration DSL. https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven not only offers Groovy, but also Clojure, Scala, and Ruby.
    comment by vorg · 2015-08-12 · in Gradle vs. Maven Feature Comparison
  15. …e.g. Maven which can be configured not only with Groovy but also Clojure, Scala, and Ruby, see https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven . Gradle 2.0 has virtually no Groovy code in its codebase, only what was essential for hosting Groovy…
    comment by vorg · 2015-08-05 · in Ask HN: Does Groovy/Grails have a future?
  16. …type of values are permitted. BUT, if you're still not happy, there's always polyglot maven[1] [1] https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven
    comment by tootie · 2015-07-25 · in Ask HN: Has anyone here programmed in Kotlin? What do you think about it?
  17. …satifaction, you can easily use another language on top of it from the many choices available, e.g. https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven
    comment by vorg · 2015-06-09 · in Using Gradle for Testing Mobile Apps on Real Devices
  18. If you don't like XML but don't want to switch to Gradle, you could use another language atop Maven: https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven
    comment by vorg · 2015-05-07 · in Java vs. Go performance