[jrabone]

- cross-platform C/C++ code and JNI libraries work just fine using the NAR plugin (was developed at CERN for this use case, IIRC). I've used this extensively over the last year to integrate legacy C++ libraries with our Hadoop jobs.

- code coverage / findbugs etc. are better done using something like Sonar. Again, this works just fine for us. You can also set up Sonar & Jenkins on your desktop in minutes and have a working analysis suite + web interface without centralising your builds.

And I assert that you're wrong on the IDE integration - Intellij appears to shell out to Maven for some things, but M2E in Eclipse is a completely different beast (and has some rough edges as a result, but can work well).