Gotcha, thanks for the response. I think a lot of why Maven doesn't bug me is because I'm not really an "enterprisey" Java/Scala guy, I use it to build more discrete and contained stuff. I had to look up what JasperReports was. :-P But I use it for libgdx projects, for Android stuff, and for just quick one-offs without a hitch. Before Play (which uses SBT, which I'm not thrilled about, but, anyway...) came around I strictly used embedded Jetty--I'd use Dropwizard these days if I was to do that with Maven again, it's great.