Java Projects - Second Edition

Gradle

Ant and Maven are two worlds, and using one or the other may lead to heated debates on Internet forums. Ant gives freedom to developers to create a build process that fits their taste. Maven restricts the team to use a build process that is more standard. Some special processes that do not match any standard build, but which are sometimes needed in some environments, are hard to implement using Maven. In Ant, you can script almost anything using the built-in tasks, almost the same way as you can program bash. Utilizing Maven is not that simple, and, it often requires writing a plugin. Even though writing a plugin is not rocket science, developers usually like to have the possibility of making things in a simpler way—scripting. We have ...