[Uchikoma]

Maven just works and if you stay within it's intent, it does it's job.

We use Maven with Bamboo for continuous integration and it just works. We play with the idea to move to Gradle b/c it's more powerful, but the effort is non trivial and the real benefits - beside the 'but it's programmable' - not clear.

[lmm]

"It's programmable" is a downside here. You do not want your build system to be turing-complete; keep it simple, and Maven enforces that.