Before you ask I did some searches, but found only old answers on the topic

To my knowledge mvn2pants is still your best bet. See a thread here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/pants-devel/HCq1Ga2t1VY/NGeJZ6OmeqAJ And the repo here: https://github.com/ericzundel/mvn2pants

yeah, I am strugling to make it run properly on my machine. Renamed a python file due to a case sensitivity issue and changed some paths that don't seem to match the project. I am troubleshooting it for now. Since this is the best option I'll keep doing it. Hopefully will do a PR with the minor changes I'm doing in case it works 🙂