What meta-java stuff? Java is notorious for not having enough meta, that’s one reason for Scala’s existence in the first place. 
If you are alluding to the Maven deps…
<dependency>
<groupId>org.geotools</groupId>
<artifactId>gt-shapefile</artifactId>
<version>${geotools.version}</version>
</dependency>
directly translates to
libraryDependencies += "org.geotools" % "gt-shapefile" % "<whatever geotools version>"
in sbt.
Other than that, I don’t see any relevant meta stuff…?