In any substantial software engineering project, the build tool is one of the most important parts of the developer’s toolkit. Without a solid build tool, the process of compiling, packaging, and ...

Ant is a powerful scripting tool that lets you craft build processes around your code requirements using predefined tasks and provides expansion capability to handle even more difficult tasks ...

Ant and Maven require XML, which -- in the eyes of some Java developers -- is a drag. More than a decade after Gradle's first release, the Java build tool is well-established, though still not the ...

Hey Guys We're planning on upgrading our SDK from Java5 to Java6 but we still want to do builds for both on the same box. We currently use ANT 1.7.1 and use the built in JAVAC task (We also use ...

There are dozens of Java build tools available, but only a few of them truly dominate. When it's time to choose one, the key runners in the race are Maven, Ant and Gradle. All three are effective in ...