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I've found maven to be useful.

It standardizes the layout for the majority of java based projects.

It also lets me deal with dependencies in a decent manner. Maven should not be downloading dependencies on every build unless you are using SNAPSHOT versions.

There is a free book available: http://www.sonatype.com/products/maven/documentation/book-de...

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Thanks very much for linking to the book - that will be very useful.

(I know Maven doesn't actually redownload everything each time, but it does seem to do something on the internet every time I build without -o; and even with -o, it still seems slow to get going. Might be project-specific / PEBCAK error though.)

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