My 2c I've been tracking this stuff for a while, and it seems to be getting quite interesting.
Quite frankly, I think all of the current crop of Java build and dependency tools suck (Ant and Maven). But there are some new-comers on the dependency management front like Apache Ivy, and on the build front like shmant, leafcutter and gradle that are looking promising. Maven is going to take a lot of work - from what I've seen, getting initial builds up and running is very easy, but making it robust and reliable is a real PITA. But it's still the current de-facto standard in the Java world, so if it makes life easier for consumers of Pivot then it may be a good idea.... Regards, Noel.
