Sorry. Really bad joke... :P
ensure that we had quality checkpoints prior to check in. With
maven it was easy to enforce a test-driven approach and to ensure
everyone was using the same workstation configuration while still
allowing them to use whatever ide they wished.
IDE project generation is one of the cool features for me. It's the
only thing (I think) that I can't get in ant, at the moment.
From an opensource perspective, Im hoping maven will make it
even easier to download and use jsftemplating. when all you have to do
is add it to your pom.xml (my famous last words!!) it's pretty easy to
get up and running quickly.
You can publish to a maven repo with ant (using the Maven Ant libs,
iirc). We're doing that in the JSF RI, at the moment. For what that's
worth.