That and don't forget: 1. The tools that can work with it [Hudson, etc] 2. The support for SVN if you want it 3. Plugins aren't the worst thing in the world. In

That and don't forget: 1. The tools that can work with it [Hudson, etc] 2. The support for SVN if you want it 3. Plugins aren't the worst thing in the world. Instead of fighting arround with Tomcat to get a dev server going and deploying the artificat manually [or getting the ide to do it] you just have to use mvn tomcat7:run ... easy.