> back to ant My experience is that people try to force Maven to be Ant. In particular, they want a single build to build all of the dependencies in one go. Wh

> back to ant My experience is that people try to force Maven to be Ant. In particular, they want a single build to build all of the dependencies in one go. While this can bedone, my experience has been it makes a lot more sense just to keep each of your dependencies a separate project without trying to build everything all at once. It also encourages to build interfaces that change little instead of tying everything together.