1. A computer-implemented method of managing an application development environment, the method comprising: receiving a request for an application build, wherein the application build has at least one dependency on at least one asset; and processing the request for the application build in response to receiving the request, the processing including: submitting a query to an asset management system for an asset containing a dependency needed for the build, the asset management system being a definitive software library external to and in communication with the application development environment, wherein the asset management system separately manages a plurality of assets apart from the application development environment via an Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration-compliant (OSLC-compliant) asset management protocol, includes a plurality of archived implementations in a local Maven dependency repository, and is inaccessible via public internet; and in response to submitting the query: generating a build failure, pursuant to the OSLC-compliant asset management protocol, in response to the asset management system indicating more than one asset matching the query is available from the asset management system; generating a build failure, pursuant to the OSLC-compliant asset management protocol, in response to the asset management system indicating no asset matching the query is available from the asset management system; and in response to the asset management system indicating exactly one asset matching the query is available from the asset management system: retrieving a dependency for the one asset from the local Maven dependency repository of the asset management system, the dependency being subject to a governance restriction and a security restriction in the OSLC-compliant asset management protocol for the asset management system; continuing the application build, wherein the continuing includes: importing at least one archived implementation from the plurality of assets into the application build in a first phase, the at least one archived implementation being saved within the local Maven dependency repository; modifying the application build with the imported at least one archived implementation from the local Maven dependency repository based on a user input in a second phase; and compiling the modified application build in a third phase.