So in my search for some maven solution. I fell on YAPMT (Yet Another Project Management Tool). I am not sure it does the same things as Maven. It uses Maven and looks much more like a script mechanism. So I will have to see whether it is suitable. While Maven is quite useful since it has a lot of plugins and a really well organized workflow. I would say that gradle seems to be like a groovy shell with a certain number of plugins for project management.
I will have to keep an eye on it.