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Panning the whirling RSS feeds for nuggets of gold, I came across something I had almost given up on finding: a build tool that I could imagine giving up Ant for. Now I’m an Ant fan from way back, having used it In Anger as far back as 1999. I’ve heard the pitches for Maven, and have been sympathetic, but never made the jump. It always seemed like something that was good in theory, but which scared me in practice. The mixed praises and pans that Maven earned from the Massed Mind of the web seemed to cement that opinion, and in spite of some extremely trusted colleagues backing it, I never managed to pull the trigger. At this point, I’m not sure I will, now that I’ve stumbled across Gradle