Hi, I am myself an Maven addict. Literally an addict, since I hate it, yet can't live without it. Why is that?
1. It is dirt easy to get going on a new project. Literally, 1 minute setup... 2. Any awkward technology I want to bring into the project later, chances are that there is a Maven plugin available to ease the introduction. 3. Dependency Management is straight forward and with artifact index support in IDEA (my IDE), I even have code completion for dependencies available on central repositories. 4. Modularization of projects into modules is a lot easier to deal with, since there is a model for it. Setting that up in Ant is hard work for complex projects. That Said; I recommend Pivot NOT to change to Maven; 1. You are already up and running. 2. You have very few and simple dependencies. 3. You don't have a whole lot of modules. But; > 1) Distribute Pivot artifacts via Maven for consumption by other projects is something you should do, but that is not very hard. Cheers -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java I live here; http://tinyurl.com/2qq9er I work here; http://tinyurl.com/2ymelc I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug
