That seems odd. I'm particuarly fond of the fact that every Java build tool has accepted Maven's artifacts as the way to do it, whether it be sbt, Buildr, Ivy,

That seems odd. I'm particuarly fond of the fact that every Java build tool has accepted Maven's artifacts as the way to do it, whether it be sbt, Buildr, Ivy, Leinigen, Gradle etc. I personally use Maven over sbt for Scala projects though, I much prefer declarative builds to... whatever leaky DSL sbt is rocking. May I ask why you're routinely shading? I only really use shading for deploying Spark jobs onto a cluster I don't control. Otherwise if I'm deploying an executable jar the assembly plugin and jar-with-dependencies does it fine. Have you seen Capsule? http://www.capsule.io http://www.capsule.io