To be perfectly honest, I was misremembering the information from this page: http://www.ninjaframework.org/documentation/getting_started/setting_up_your_ide.ht

To be perfectly honest, I was misremembering the information from this page: http://www.ninjaframework.org/documentation/getting_started/setting_up_your_ide.html http://www.ninjaframework.org/documentation/getting_started/... As I had previously recalled, Ninja's SuperDevMode involved a bunch of bytecode manipulation or something, but that was obviously incorrect. Re Maven vs. Gradle, I HATE XML with a burning, undying passion. It's just my personal holy war, and while I quite like Maven, I moved to Gradle a while ago to cut out the main source of XML anguish in my life. Of course, a quick google indicates that that is changing too: http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/03/maven-polyglot http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/03/maven-polyglot I do like me some YAML. Realizing that my early-morning phone comment was from half-memories and out-of-date information? Not so much :).