[benjaminwootton]

I've never understood the hate for it either.

It's a relatively thin wrapper around Javac for defining your dependencies and implementing a standard compile, package, test, deploy lifecycle.

In the bad old days you would just half-implement the same thing in an ad-hoc way.

[revscat]

It certainly isn't easy to get running if you don't use t regularly. I only have bad passing reasons to use maven, and every time it has been a huge timesink just to get it to spit out a jar file.

Not a fan.

[benjaminwootton]

It's two lines...

mvn archetype:generate mvn package