What I find most of new users of Maven fail to grasp is that it's not designed to work as Ant or Make. There's a reason jelly support was dropped in M2 The best

What I find most of new users of Maven fail to grasp is that it's not designed to work as Ant or Make. There's a reason jelly support was dropped in M2 The best thing about Maven is that once you understand what it's supposed to do, it does a great job at it. But when you find your self doing more custom stuff, it's better to extend your build process with the tools which are designed for this and let Maven handle the stuff it does fine. And yes, Maven support in Eclipse is... crap, because Eclipse is designed around Ant-like tools. Sorry to the guys who maintain the m2-plugin because it has to be a lot of work, but if you're using Maven, you'd better go with NetBeans or any other IDE. In my case, I do all the builds from the CLI and don't bother to integrate Maven with the IDE.