Edited sentence: A key criticism of maven is its atrocious documentation.After spending all day looking for the most basic of information on Maven, I am now convinced the entire Maven community is either currently on acid, has taken much acid previously,  or that they are really an underground community of greedy consultants who are hording all the secrets of getting maven to actually do what it claims it can do, so they can make millions in consulting fees to large incompetent corporations trying to save money by using freeware.Ahh, that rant made me feel good... OK back to the internet to try find the needle in the undocumented haystack that will make maven do what it claims it can do.If you use maven (I do) be prepared to read tons of incorrect documentation, be extremeley frustrated, and spends many, many hours searching the bowels of the internet for the answers to your questions.Maven may be FREE, but you will pay dearly in hours of frustration dealing with the worst documentation set of any software project ever to exist in the history of man.On a scale of 1-10,  they get a 1.The docs completely lack any real substance, are missing crucial tidbits of information, and are very often obsolete or just flat out wrong.They are that bad