[computerdork]

Just wrote a comment how I've always liked Maven. It's perfect for small and medium sized projects, and for service-oriented architectures/microservices - it seems like it was designed for this! It's main goal is to help you figure out the libraries that you're using and build them in a standard way.

It isn't great for really strange and odd builds, but in that case, you should probably be breaking your project down into smaller components (each with it's own maven file) anyways.