Maven: great idea, poor implementation (Part 1)

I’ve been building Java software using Ant for over 10 years. I’ve
been giving Maven a try every few years since it first came out, and
going back to Ant pretty quickly each time, until last year. Early last
year I used Maven on a few smallish – pretty much one-person – projects,
and found it to be pretty useful, so I decided it may be ready for
prime time.

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