Apache Maven: Beginner to Guru (Udemy.com)

At first, I thought it might be outdated, considering it was recorded in 2019. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find that Maven is still pretty stable. Completed in about a month. I would have given it 4.5 stars because the instructor explains things thoroughly, but it would be a shame because the content is worth it.

Great course by John. If you want to make fundamentals strong on build tool, this course is must have. This course also covers must know industry standards that every individual and organisation should follow. You will also get to know a complete CI/CD flow in this course. One thing I would like to highlight is artefacts/ libraries, java version used in this course are old, you have to make some efforts to make them work with latest libraries and java version.

The instructor is quite knowledgeable and has a lot of experience. However, he could be better at explaining or describing some complex topics. Also, the course was quite complicated, which was not relevant to the title "Beginner to Guru" Luckily, I had some hands-on Maven before which help me a lot in understanding what he lectured.

Really good course which helped to understand the basic maven concepts and more step by step. I've been using maven for several years already but didn't really understand what happend under the hood. I've tried different youtube tutorials\guides but always got a feeling that I miss the core concepts so I wasn't really sure about what I was doing. John explains all the needed stuff step by step. Outstanding support in QA section and slack. Now I feel confident about what I'm doing regarding maven. Total recommendation for those who hesitate.

Definitely the best resource for Maven I've come across. I've been working as a Java Developer for roughly two years and work with Maven on a daily basis, but didn't really have a good understanding of what Maven was or it was doing. This course has greatly improved my confidence in the technology and I look forward to incorporating what I've learned!

Overall a great course for getting a broad overview of the capabilities in maven. Later parts in this course can be used as a reference for special topics while the beginning is more of an introduction of everything (pom, plugins, dependencies,...). I immedeatly could use some of my newly learned knowledge.

This is a good course if you want to know how to use Maven, not so good when it comes to how Maven works. JT explains things clearly but I feel course content can be enriched a bit. Things like disabling default-compile execution id for Kotlin are not explained at all. Except lifecycle and phase lecture, course is mainly focused on utilitarian aspects of Maven. Not much talk about MOJO, project object, how build is triggered and run by Maven, execution ids and so on. I feel all these should at least be glossed over to give inherent understanding of the subject at hand.

I have a smooth experience with this course. In the last session, John uses his beer services as examples. However, these microservices have been updated in his Github repositories many times after this course was published. I would advise students who don't take his microservice course to comment out the @EnableScheduling and @EnableAsync in TaskConfig in the mssc-beer-order-service to make mvn test run. If these two annotations are not commented out, the mvn test will hang forever. Also, I had another issue with Circle Ci. Circle CI cannot be authenticated by the Oracle server to download the ojdbc jar files.

Good course. A lot of great examples. Only a few critiques. I would have liked a little more breakdown of all the maven tags and what/when they could be used. It would just help to know the complete usage and power of maven, not just in certain use cases. I feel that I would then be prepared a bit more for the situations that don't match the given examples. The course is a bit dated but as the instructor has said on a few occasions, maven is so consistent that it is boring. I did run into a few issues with the updated versions of libraries but it gave me an opportunity to debug. Updates could be made to topics where the industry standard have changed like junit5 that were brand new at the time of recording. The only other critique would be - there were a couple of times where things didn't work as expected and it was flash forwarded to the solution. I would have preferred to see these live everyone has to debug at some point and it also helps you understand things a bit better. With all that being said, I do have confidence that Mr. Thompson has given a good and wide range of examples from his extensive experience. Overall, I am satisfied with the course. It gives a good overview that prepares you for building a wide range of application artifacts using maven. Sincerely, Mike

Started out with this a month or so ago. As soon as I saw the material on GitHub, I stopped and did a GitHub course. A warning about pre-requisites would be helpful. JT is a terrific instructor. Listening to him is like sitting next to a trusted colleague, somebody who knows what he's doing and knows how to get the point across---without any arrogance or impatience.