SBT is really just Maven without as much XML boilerplate. The syntax might be a little different but it integrates perfectly with Maven repositories. For my SBT projects I pull in a bunch of maven projects and they interact seamlessly. also it took the huge XML configuration file and replaced it with a few lines of configuration code. The only downside to being a different tool is with some of the plugins. I know maven has a much better plugin landscape then SBT does at this point, but SBT does have the ability to have the same functionality.