Are you aware of Maven Archetypes[1]? I believe they were the "cookiecutter" before cookiecutter existed, although I am 10000000% on-board that their discovery story is total garbage :-(
But I don’t want to copy a full project with prepopulated list of dependencies chosen by someone else. I want to start small and add dependencies I need.
1: https://maven.apache.org/archetype/index.html and https://maven.apache.org/archetype/maven-archetype-plugin/us...