I rather like the declarative style of Maven. Maybe I'm just resisting change, but I don't like gradle. It requires too much "programming" for a build tool. But

I rather like the declarative style of Maven. Maybe I'm just resisting change, but I don't like gradle. It requires too much "programming" for a build tool. But I agree with your statement about Maven/Gradle's dependency resolution magic. The times where I've struggled with incompatible version conflicts and the like have not been numerous enough to count. A little bit of caution goes a long way, I think. Incidentally, the only times I have been affected by this were while using IBM or Oracle components which rely entirely too much on global and environment settings.