[mike_hearn]

Maven has a lot of jargon. I also found it confusing when I started. POMS, artifacts, plugins, reactors etc ... heck I still find Maven confusing and unintuitive sometimes. Their docs are awful: typical failure mode for software that's in love with the idea of plugins.

[eshvk]

Exactly. With Make, I can delve down into the bash code easily and figure out what is happening. With Maven, there is enough overhead that I have to resort to cargo-cult googling.