Unfortunately maven has a reputation in the "enterprise". So, one of my coworkers chose it as a build & configuration tool for a production system which is phys

Unfortunately maven has a reputation in the "enterprise". So, one of my coworkers chose it as a build & configuration tool for a production system which is physically firewalled. He happily ignored fact that maven won't be able to download dependencies. Yeah, production system had to be built on place and subsequent configuration changes have to be driven by maven (think of all mandays purchased so that devs could write their plugins for stuff which could be done in makefiles in minutes). So how this guy delivered his app to production? By uploading about 600MB of .m2/repository. Guess what. Nobody complained. Luckily I don't contract that company anymore.