Sounds much more like a rant to me. The complaint about the war file size is a prime example. There are several quick / easy ways to analyze this and fix it / force it to generate exactly what you want. None of that is particularly advanced mvn black magic.
It sounds like he chose to just give up on the tool, spend a lot of time ranting about it on a blog, and go back to what he was familiar with.
It sounds like he chose to just give up on the tool, spend a lot of time ranting about it on a blog, and go back to what he was familiar with.