title: Is there anything like pkg-config for Java?
body: <p>I have a project where our CLASSPATH is getting out of hand.  We have jars that depend on other jars, which in turn depend on even more jars, as well as a large collection of third-party jars.  So each time we use one of these jars we need to construct a rather large CLASSPATH, and if downstream dependencies change it is no longer in sync.</p>
  
  <p>One thought is to maybe write a tool a little like pkg-config to help with all of this.  I did some searching and didn't find anything.  Are there any tools like this that I've missed or do people have alternate solutions?</p>
  
  <p>No, I don't want to use Maven.  We already have a different build system in place.</p>