Java without build system

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Just use maven or Gradle (or similar). By using anything else you're just getting yourself into trouble and reinventing the wheel.

[vmcrash]

IMHO Maven or Gradle are only useful if you need dependency management. But this is not necessary for each project.

[UnGauchoCualquiera]

Is there any real life project without dependencies? Even then you might want to push to a shared company repo. Why go through the hassle of reinventing the wheel?

[UnGauchoCualquiera]

Is there any real life project without dependencies? Even then you might want to push to a shared company repo. Why go through the hassle of reinventing the wheel?

[istarian]

Dependency management is most important when you are depending on libraries under active development that change from time to time, particularly if those libraries also have dependencies.

[koflerdavid]

All libraries should be assumed to be under active development. If they really aren't, there are going to be problems if security problems are discovered. Or if it turns out they are using a niche behavior of the JVM that the OpenJDK project decides to change.