I think the reason most people hate Maven is because they have only been exposed to the XML side of things. Which does suck. But Maven was never created to hav

I think the reason most people hate Maven is because they have only been exposed to the XML side of things. Which does suck. But Maven was never created to have you work directly with XML. It has XML and APIs and plugins and whatnot so that tools like Eclipse and IDEA can create awesome tooling around it. And I think this new Maven integration in IDEA shows exactly that. Even if you are not using Java you should really check the short video. There are so many nice things in it that could easily be awesome on other development platforms.