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As one of the commenters to the blog post points out, the free online Maven book from SonaType makes complaints like this obsolete:

http://books.sonatype.com/maven-book/

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No it doesn't. This one issue was covered in the book (but strangely hard to find with Google), yet Maven, the "project comprehension tool" is impossible to comprehend.

If it's so impossible to comprehend, why is adoption growing so quickly?

http://stubbisms.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/maven-is-to-ant-as-a-nail-gun-is-to-hammer-and-nails-you-need-to-move-on/

Maven, the worst build system.... except for all the other ones