>FWIW >I strongly agree with your sentiments, Manual. >One of the neat maven features that isn't well known is just being able to do >"mvn jetty:run" and have Jetty load up right away (no creating of a web-app >directory or packaging of a war or anything like that). >What I hate about ant based projects is that each ant file is yet another >build script to figure out. That and dealing with .jar's of course. > >Yeah, maven can be annoying at times. >
I have not used Maven much but we seemed to have tons of bother setting it up on nodes which had no internet access. In fact I can state is was the key reason we did not move to cocoon 2.x. Fergus.