[gacba]

It takes a bit of understanding and experience to appreciate these features and to use them effectively.

That would be the reason why most expert JEE folks aren't getting Maven. It's not a short or easy learning curve. even on a good day with good folks to help you wade through it.

That said, Maven's dependency management engine alone is worth the price of admission. Bye-bye JAR hell. But the integrated build/release/tag/version features are the real treat once you get that far...

[karthikm]

Yes. Thats why companies that can afford have separate build engineers. Maybe one shouldn't be called an expert if they have a poor understanding of how their build system works? My first couple of interview questions for Senior JEE engineers always revolves around their understanding of build and I've found it to be a useful parameter to validate their claims of being an expert.