A wild idea just popped in my head to express a Maven project, which is described in pom.xml, with Java annotations in Java and generate "effective" pom.xml out of Java code with help of a maven plugin.
It looks like an obvious idea and most probably somebody tried to implement this and stepped on a pitfall, but I haven't found any attempt to do so on the Internet. So I just curious to ask. :)
At first glance it's apparent thought, because Spring and even EJB started with XML and now where is it?! Maven reached version 3 years ago and I don't see any move away from XML.
I am aware of Gradle existence but it's completely different system with its own strong and weak points, I want a light restyle.
