I think it's unnecessary because the version of maven used is just one of many things that should be handled by configuration management. I don't think we need

I think it's unnecessary because the version of maven used is just one of many things that should be handled by configuration management. I don't think we need to have a separate tool to do this for every app out there. In my case, I'm using chef, so it comes from these attributes: https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/maven/blob/master/attributes/default.rb https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/maven/blob/master/attri...