On the other hand you have the same kind of problems with Maven. You have to state your dependencies explicitly which can be a pain. And Maven does not support

On the other hand you have the same kind of problems with Maven. You have to state your dependencies explicitly which can be a pain. And Maven does not support multiple versions when running tests. Everything is lumped into one classloader (afaik), where I sometimes wish Maven would make use of something OSGi like. With regards to dependency declaration both are pretty similar.