Instead of node I would say look at Maven, I never had a problem with a java project that used maven, all I ever needed was maven, and a JDK. It may not be the

Instead of node I would say look at Maven, I never had a problem with a java project that used maven, all I ever needed was maven, and a JDK. It may not be the best out there but to me seems pretty good considering it is as simple as download source code, and run "mvn package".