There's a bunch of maven repositories (usually googling '+"library name" +"maven" +"pom.xml" works), but I haven't yet found anything like CPAN's search website

There's a bunch of maven repositories (usually googling '+"library name" +"maven" +"pom.xml" works), but I haven't yet found anything like CPAN's search website. mvn:create can bring up an interface that's very smilar to CPAN's shell. What needs to be done is a shell that allows functionality such as "search /amazon/" or "search guice, jersey" or "info google-collections". Scala would be a great choice to make sort of a "REPL" shell :-)