It's a pity that this comment is somewhat buried, because it is so true. Loads of people complain about Maven, because writing custom logic in it is hard. If yo

It's a pity that this comment is somewhat buried, because it is so true. Loads of people complain about Maven, because writing custom logic in it is hard. If you do want to add some custom conditional steps into your build, you have to somehow squeeze it in your pom file using plugins and xml configuration. But the thing is, because adding custom logic is so hard, Maven builds are pretty easy to understand. And as in all other area's of software development, easy to understand means easy to change and easy to maintain.