Ivy is everything Maven should have/could have been 2.5 years ago
I’ve been working with an ant-based dependency management tool called Ivy:
http://www.jayasoft.fr/org/modules/ivy/overview.php
We’ve been talking about restructuring the Spring Framework source layout at some point relatively soon (although it almost certainly won’t happen for 1.2), so that the individual components of Spring each have their own source level projects, instead of living under one big fat project […]

