> I lost hours trying to set up Maven to download one library and build my project. You should check out Apache Buildr (http://buildr.apache.org/ http://buildr

> I lost hours trying to set up Maven to download one library and build my project. You should check out Apache Buildr (http://buildr.apache.org/ http://buildr.apache.org/). It gives you the power of Maven repos with a Ruby "front end". And, yes, I know it's imperative and not declarative but I find that the build files tend to be small and understandable.