> Yes, there are Ant and Gradle ...and Leinengen and SBT and perhaps a build tool for every other JVM language... > but let's be honest, Maven is king whether

> Yes, there are Ant and Gradle ...and Leinengen and SBT and perhaps a build tool for every other JVM language... > but let's be honest, Maven is king whether you like it or not Maven would do well to offer an alternative CSS/Gradle-like syntax (if doesn't already) because XML is still hard to read.