> a genuine need that Maven does not meet. i really fail to believe that tbh. Making a maven plugin, in the worst case, works. The flexibility of gradle (or

> a genuine need that Maven does not meet. i really fail to believe that tbh. Making a maven plugin, in the worst case, works. The flexibility of gradle (or any other procedural build tools) is to make the project _easy_ to customize, which means the tool encourages it. Maven deliberately forces _all_ builds to conform to their set of phases, and assign meaning to each phase. If you're coming in fresh to a project, it's easy to see what phases are being attached to, and guess what's being done without having to have intimate understanding of the actual work.