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It seems merely adding a file to the .mvn directory will do as you wish: https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven#usage
I have avoided that road because it's one more thing that is a snowflake in the very area where I don't want to blazing trails. But I have personally tried their approach before and can confirm it does work as advertised. I can't recall if IJ lost its mind over pulling a stunt like that, but arguably if it did, then filing a YouTrack is an appropriate next step
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Interesting discussion here. I've been very happy with Gradle for my first major JVM project, a small Kotlin API with a simple build configuration (https://github.com/thomasboyt/jam-buds/blob/master/rhiannon/...). I suppose I'm not surprised to see more complaints from folks who have worked with it on much longer-lived and _much_ more complex projects.
I've been thinking of taking a peek into Java, which I have never really written, given that I haven't been very impressed with the "Kotlin-first" JVM libraries and frameworks I've seen, and I've been pretty annoyed by the JetBrains tooling lock-in Kotlin has (there is no major VSCode/VIM-ready language server for Kotlin, for example, unlike what Red Hat has been building using Eclipse's underpinnings for Java). Is the general thinking that, for something like a Spring Boot application, it's much better to just start with Maven? I'll admit I am, aesthetically, displeased with the mountains of XML config I've seen in some tutorial articles, but I imagine it's a lot simpler to maintain over time than any DSL would be.
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One big advantage is the Gradle daemon, which (in return for consuming all available memory) saves you from having to spin up the JVM every time you build and can be substantially faster.
It seems someone has recently created something similar for Maven: https://github.com/mvndaemon/mvnd
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Maven is great so long as there's a plugin to do what you need to do. If there isn't, it's quite possible that writing one will be simpler than trying to coax Maven into doing something unorthodox.
For example, here's an old plugin I put together to allow easy publishing of a third-party artefact to a repository that didn't have a web interface for such things: https://github.com/andrewaylett/prepackaged
It's old enough that the infrastructure I set up around it has bit-rotted -- I've just pushed a clone to GitHub to share here :). I'd hope using modern language features would make it easier still.
