If I had to go back to Java tomorrow I would use Gradle hands down. I don't know why the author didn't grok it too well, but for me it has tons of plugins, the

If I had to go back to Java tomorrow I would use Gradle hands down. I don't know why the author didn't grok it too well, but for me it has tons of plugins, the scriptability when a plugin is slightly off from what you need, and can be extremely tiny when you just need to build a simple jar.