The way of Buckminster (1)

http://www.eclipse.org/buckminster/index.php

Buckminster is a pretty new project of Eclipse, its target is make software assembly and deployment very easily than before. It's not another build system like Maven or Ant, but an useful complementary for them. It's not limit to only use in Eclipse, instead you can use it for any kind of project, even C++, if you have time to extend it.

Basically, it's a software build on top of OSGi Framework, you can get more proofs if you try its headless package.

A good start from here:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Hello_XML_World_Example_%28Buckminster%29