Why I hate Maven

Yes, I admin that Maven has improved the development of Java programmers because the tons of dependencies each project brings.

So why I hate it so much? Well, because the thousands (really thousands!) of network calls to the remote server to:

• check versions
• check md5
• download pom.xml files
• download jars

But why Maven has been realized in the way we know? All the logic is at client side. This means that each Maven user pays the absurd latency cost for each network calls! The solution? Git teaches.

Why don't build a tree of requested JARs, send it to the Maven server and download the resulting zipped archive containing all the stuff to install in one shot?

In this way updates daily updates would take ms or just some seconds depending by the updates and the network bandwidth, not any more by the network latency.