Revamped build system -- Maven?

[apocalyptech]

My understanding is that ant is a somewhat deprecated system, or at least not really recommended by the wider Java community. Maven seems to be the way to go? Maven would also allow us to specify third-party libraries a little more sensibly, and avoid having the third-party libraries stored right in our git repo. It'd also be nice to be able to build+run from commandline a bit more easily, though technically I think I could fire off ant builds from the CLI already...