# Trying on Pants

DevFeed: [Trying on Pants](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/trying-on-pants-15933.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.squareup.com/blog/trying-on-pants>)

Author: Square Engineering

Published: 2014-09-16T16:07:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Square Corner Blog RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/square-corner-blog-rss-feed.md>)

Topics: [Java](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/java.md>), [Maven](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/maven.md>), [build times](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/build-times.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ci.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>)

Tags: [build](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build.md>), [build-system](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build-system.md>), [cache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cache.md>), [continuous-integration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/continuous-integration.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [incremental](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incremental.md>), [java](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/java.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [projects](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/projects.md>), [repo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/repo.md>)

## AI overview

Square describes experimenting with the Pants build system in a repository containing many Java projects while replacing some Apache Maven build processes. Pants is evaluated for incremental builds, Maven Nexus integration, local and distributed artifact caching, plugin support, and its open development community. The project is used alongside Maven while the team considers broader integration and additional Java and CI capabilities.

## Source excerpt

With many Java projects in a single repo, we are trying out the Pants build system.