[bjohnso5]

In what way is Maven a programming language? Is it simply to disambiguate other XML configuration from the build declarations?

[rnd33]

How is 50k lines of build declarations even possible?

[fournm]

That's not actually surprising--it's really easy to have a 1500+ line long POM with how verbose it is. Depending on how many maven modules there are, I could see 50k pretty easily.

[elwell]

Brute force as opposed to a few moments of contemplation for a reasonably elegant solution