[timv]

You can add pretty much anything to do with CORBA to your list. Yes there are plugins for it, but they only work in the most trivial of cases.

The original article was helpful to clarifying for me why I have such a low opinion of maven - the project I was working on when Maven came out was a large complex codebase and we'd built lots of interesting things into our Ant build files. I could not work out how to ever do those sorts of things in Maven.

[cbsmith]

Badly written programs are far from an inevitable outcome with contextual tools. That is more a symptom of Maven's choice of a rather narrow context that has limited its appeal (that and all the ways it sucks ;-).