REVISITED: What is Right with Grails and Wrong with Maven
With regard to my previous post, it looks like I pulled the Maven command from an old set of documentation. I believe the preferred way to create a new Grails app with Maven is a command like the following:
mvn grails:create-app appName
I can’t say I don’t have anything against Maven, because I don’t like it. 
Personally I’ve had much better luck with Ant, but then I’ve never worked in a highly distributed team environment with lots of dependencies and builds that couldn’t be managed with a simple Ant script.
Let the holy wars continue…
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have you tried Gradle ? You definitely should. Best of both worlds (and even more)
I haven’t tried Gradle yet, though it’s definitely on my radar. Does it play well with Grails?
I heard on the Grails podcast that Gant just replaced its own project build system with Gradle. I’d say that’s a pretty good endorsement.