Why you should learn Maven
It's hard to understand what Maven can do for you until you experience it, but bear with me and I'll try to explain what its done for me. A couple of years ago I was lucky enough to get on a Google Web Toolkit learning course. It was taught by great and inspiring young hacker. He seemed to know everything. We spend ages downloading library jar files for junit, easymock, hibernate, slf4j, and all the libraries that those libaries are dependent on. It took up a lot of time, and I wondered how I would ever find/navigate/manage all those jar files and their dependencies. I could see that it would be pretty easy to get into the java equivalent of .dll hell. However under our instructors expert advice we patched it all together and built our GWT project. I learn a heck of a lot. I learnt some Java, the MVP pattern, saw glimpses into Test Driven Development (TDD) using junit, and easymock, Object Relational Mapping with Hibernate and Dependency Injection. In truth the course b