Java developers realized that by leveraging the Java platform, they could create a more powerful build tool, one specifically designed for Java programmers. The result is Ant.

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 ...

What is the best Java build tool on the market? Is it Gradle? Do people still use Ant? Here, we explore why Maven is still one of the industry's most popular Java build tools.

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 ...