You could also ask the same question on the ant user list. You may have a quiet different answer. ;-)
2008/10/24 Oleg Gusakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Daniel, > > The difference if that with Ant you write an Assembler-like program: you can > do a lot, but maintainability is like current economy - very low. And here > you always have to write what to do and how to do it, like for <javac/> you > have to tell it where the sources are, where the output should go. > > With Maven - you write a SQL statement: you don't tell it how to do things, > just say what needs to be done, and maven will figure out the way to do it. > If you compile java classes - you don't even have to mention the compiler - > Maven defalts will take care of that. > > For examples - you can check the book: http://www.sonatype.com/book > > I think that if there is more that one person working on a project - Ant is > a dead end for a build system. > > Overall - please ask these kind of questions on the user list, this one is > mainly for developing maven itself. > > dr2238 wrote: >> >> I have knowledge on ant, but doesn't have any knowledge on >> maven. I heard other say ant is kind of procedural language , while >> maven >> is an objected oriented language. >> >> Is that true? Could anyone explain it to me a little bit? It would be >> great if you can show me some small examples to let me understand what is >> the difference between them. >> >> >> thanks a lot for your help >> >> >> Daniel >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Gilles Scokart --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
