{quote}This gives you hot deploy feature. While filtering if a change on your smileyRepository snip is detected the entire repository content will be reloaded (maybe I should do an incremental load){quote} Wow, You mean create a snip called __smileyRepository__ , add regex there, upload images there, and then we can use smileys for any snips, right ? Good Job ! but can make snip name __smileyRepository__ load from application.conf ? {quote} Hmm, I'm not a maven user, for what I've seen it's quite a configuration killer (maybe I'm wrong). We could although have both build systems, ant and maven. What are the pros and cons of using maven instead of ant for the build process? {quote} I used maven 2 because my office needs a project report for monitoring status, javadocs, and others. But main purpose for me is management the library dependencies. I do not need to put the jar library files on SVN repository if use maven2. Yes, those jar file will download to local repository automatically, but if some one needs a different version of some library, just modify the config file ( pom.xml ) and maven2 will download the library and all dependencies files. A disadvantages for maven2 is: the build-in plugins can not support ftp the .war file to a remote jsp container, maven2 need each plugins for all jsp containers. I tried to build a snipsnap maven2 project before, but I failed. {quote} Are you interested in write access to the SVN repository? {quote} hmm.... I'll mail you my SVN account. And, I will anounce the folk version's infomation on my blog.