In my company we recently switched to Maven and Struts. Personally I believe Maven is great, not only for the 'xdocs' facility, but from a project management point of view. Its greatest benefit, IMO, is to offer developers a common repository, via the dependency mechanism, promoting integreation of jars versions and component modularization. Amongst its other benefits, I certainly like the fact that Maven promotes versioning stability (through the SNAPSHOT option), it links to CVS repositories creating web reports about developers activities and files checked in/out and the plugin mechanism. If I want to use Ant, as Maven has been defined as an 'Ant wrapper', I simply use ant scripts from within the Maven build files. I believe that offering the possibility of building Struts (and other open source projects) through Maven, will increase also the projects' popularity and contributions. I remember that before Maven, I often given up building from the source because of the dependencies. Today I've downloaded version 1.2.4 of Struts, built through Maven, and except from the build process hanging in the middle a couple of times while downloading jars (I had to restart it a couple of times), the built went on as smoothly as a piece of cake.
Marco
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