MattGill98
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6 years ago I've removed the netbeans specific files, thanks for pointing those out!
The extra files are just to allow the Gradle build to be called from Maven. You're incorrect in saying that any examples depend on each other, they simply allows the artifact to be built when running a general build of all the samples. If you're just downloading a single sample you can completely ignore the Maven files and it will work fine. If however you're viewing the whole project, as I always do, I personally find it a little bit alienating when a submodule (as the project has been setup that way) has no relation to it's parent. If you'd rather see the Maven files removed that's fine, but to be clear they only add to the sample - not altar any functionality.
Gradle sample uses a Maven pom.xml to trigger the Gradle wrapper build. This way users won't need to have any idea what Gradle is in order to build the entire suite as normal.