pom.xml-to-build.sbt

PomToSbt.scala

object PomToSbt extends App {

  import scala.xml._

  val lines = (XML.load("pom.xml") \\ "dependencies") \ "dependency" map { dependency => 
    val groupId = (dependency \ "groupId").text
    val artifactId = (dependency \ "artifactId").text
    val version = (dependency \ "version").text
    val scope = (dependency \ "scope").text
    val classifier = (dependency \ "classifier").text
    val artifactValName: String = artifactId.replaceAll("[-\\.]", "_")

    val scope2 = scope match {
      case "" => ""
      case _ => s""" % "$scope""""
    }

    val artifactStr = 
      if (artifactId.contains("_2.") || artifactId.contains("_${") || artifactId.contains("scala-library"))
        s"""% "$artifactId""""
      else
        s"""%% "$artifactId""""

    s"""  "$groupId" $artifactStr % "$version"$scope2"""
  }

  val buildSbt = io.Source.fromURL("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mslinn/sbtTemplate/master/build.sbt").mkString
  val libText = "libraryDependencies ++= Seq("
  val buildSbt2 = buildSbt.replace(libText, libText + lines.mkString("\n", ",\n", ""))
  println(buildSbt2)

}

My take on:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15430346/how-could-i-convert-a-pom-xml-to-sbt-dependencies

Use:

$ cd $DIR_WITH_POMXML_BUILD
$ scala PomToSbt.scala > build.sbt
$ sbt

FYI this script needs some fixing-up -- the template has some extraneous stuff, is kind of out-of-order, and forgets to add some , and other necessary symbols. However, it get most of the way there! (And the downloaded template has some good documentation on sbt config stuff).