[schmichael]

I don't think you read the article. You don't address his certificate issues. Your solution also requires writing a pom.xml which is non-trivial.

[Malus]

Maven can generate one for you:

  mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app -DartifactId=my-app -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DinteractiveMode=false

Which is not trivial I suppose, but it is pretty easy to do.

[exabrial]

::head desk::

A pom.xml at least has a schema and tons of copy/paste examples. Every language sucks in it's own way.