> I, myself, miss dumb simple java build tool which would to the very minimum of job. I did that in ~2007 with apache ant. I barely understood the tool (have

> I, myself, miss dumb simple java build tool which would to the very minimum of job. I did that in ~2007 with apache ant. I barely understood the tool (have mercy, I was 15 at the time) and had cobbled up a very basic build.xml file. It did build and it did assemble a runnable jar file, given a classpath containing the dependency jars (i wasn't using many, like 1 or 2). I still had to download the jars and manually place them in a sub-directory. if you want a build tool that can be very dumb I'd say that ant is what you need. It can be as dumb or as smart as you want it to be.