Overtime, I have met a couple of developers, I've known some indirectly or directly...but what surprises me is that I haven't met any that uses maven to build their java applications. Personally I avoid maven and for a certain reason. So here's the question, is there a reason Nigerian coders are avoiding Maven ?
I for one avoid Maven primarily because of the availability of internet in the country and even when you manage to get access to it, the speed can be stupidly annoying. An yes there's the cost of data every time maven repository updates it's index and download packages for each compile.

However, i don't dispute the fact that it is a good tool, I'd use it every time if i had the resources at my finger tips. So what other reasons are there ?

The main reason is Internet and maybe some don't know about it. I use maven and it makes work easy

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saw your good illustrations on making games.

I use Maven, is really the best for me with Spring Booth.

Internet shouldn't be a factor, we live in an era where Internet is mobile, I feel they refused to embrace the framework, truth is I cannot commence a project without using maven as a build , and also they need to realize maven isn't just a build framework like ant, it manages a software development cycle, u can deploy a maven project to central repository and clone it locally on ur machine, secondly maven manages ur libraries in ur local repo, u can simply add the dependency in ur pom, thirdly, on clean install, maven builds ur library dependencies to a lib directory so it creates only one file for deployment.

javadoctor:
Internet shouldn't be a factor, we live in an era where Internet is mobile, I feel they refused to embrace the framework, truth is I cannot commence a project without using maven as a build , and also they need to realize maven isn't just a build framework like ant, it manages a software development cycle, u can deploy a maven project to central repository and clone it locally on ur machine, secondly maven manages ur libraries in ur local repo, u can simply add the dependency in ur pom, thirdly, on clean install, maven builds ur library dependencies to a lib directory so it creates only one file for deployment.

Nicely said.