I forgot to mention that Maven and ant have different objectives and serve
different purposes. Maven manages
the build process on a higher level and shields a lot of the details providing
a uniform build system.
You can still however easily run ant tasks in maven using the ant run plugin.
Mave
I second maven. It is an excellent build tool, just make sure you use maven 2
cause its much cleaner than maven 1. Actually I just finished
upgrading some existing projects at work from maven 1 to use maven 2.
Bashar
My personal preference is Maven, it makes the build process very
easy. One
My personal preference is Maven, it makes the build process very
easy. One of the caveats with Maven is that you will *probably* have
to sacrifice your build structure in order to gain that ease. But on
the plus side it simplifies things a great deal. If this is a
direction you're intereste
Without starting a flame-war... ;)
I'm about to embark on updating a very brittle build process. It's
currently based on a combination of relying on the IDE + a bit of ant
In all honesty, I know make better than I know any other build tool, but
I'd rather not do this build in make. So, I'm looking
