Moving from gradle to maven

Gradle was causing to much of a headache and made the project just
frustrating to work in with all these nested folders and unnecessary
files

.gitignore

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# Ignore Gradle files
 .gradle
 **/build/
 !src/**/build/
@@ -26,3 +27,22 @@ bin
 
 # Ignore Gradle build output directory
 build
+
+# Ignore Maven files
+target/
+pom.xml.tag
+pom.xml.releaseBackup
+pom.xml.versionsBackup
+pom.xml.next
+release.properties
+dependency-reduced-pom.xml
+buildNumber.properties
+.mvn/timing.properties
+# https://maven.apache.org/wrapper/#usage-without-binary-jar
+.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.jar
+
+# Eclipse m2e generated files
+# Eclipse Core
+.project
+# JDT-specific (Eclipse Java Development Tools)
+.classpath