"ataylor" wrote : I actually don't mind maven when it comes to thirdparty dependencies. You have finer grained control over what you want. i.e., with buildmagic if someone wants to use JBM all the jars are downloaded when maybe they only want the client jars. Also its download only once for every project which i like. | | Also theres nothing to stop us using ant to build and call maven just for the dependencies, thats what the AS build does. | | +1 with jbm 2 only. I like that idea also. Paul Gier has a guide somewhere on how to do that. I found it a bit hacky to use it at first, but after it' s ready it' s easy to maintain. (I'm not volunteering though... I know 0 about Maven :-).... and I would prefer keep that way :-P ) View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4235394#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...