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I know, I was talking about having a simple ui where you check check check and "pom" you have the libraries that you want.

Edit: The ui generates the dependencies for your pom. I know how maven works, and it's a pain to copy all those xml snippets in your pom.

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But... that's the point of Maven and other package managers. Why does it need a UI like that? Unlike JS, the tradition in Java development is to use managed dependencies rather than download JARs for everything and throw them in /lib.

Maven needs a UI because of its pathologically-verbose XML syntax. Compare a pom.xml with its Gradle equivalent...only one is designed with humans in mind.

Which is why I said "and other package managers." My point was that a UI like the one to build a custom Bootstrap download doesn't make sense in the Java world because we have package managers, unmanaged dependencies are not the norm in most projects.

Most IDEs will let you search Maven Central in a UI and add those pesky snippets to your pom for you.

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