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Pros of Apache Ant
- Flexible4
- Simple1
- Easy to learn1
- Easy to write own java-build-hooks1
Pros of Apache Maven
- Dependency management138
- Necessary evil70
- I’d rather code my app, not my build60
- Publishing packaged artifacts48
- Convention over configuration43
- Modularisation18
- Consistency across builds11
- Prevents overengineering using scripting6
- Runs Tests4
- Lot of cool plugins4
- Extensible3
- Hard to customize2
- Runs on Linux2
- Runs on OS X1
- Slow incremental build1
- Inconsistent buillds1
- Undeterminisc1
- Good IDE tooling1
Pros of Pants
- Creates deployable packages6
- Runs on Linux4
- Runs on OS X4
- BUILD files4
- Runs tests4
- Scales4
- Flexibility2
- Extensible2
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Cons of Apache Ant
- Slow1
- Old and not widely used anymore1
Cons of Apache Maven
- Complex6
- Inconsistent buillds1
- Not many plugin-alternatives0
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What is Apache Ant?
Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like Make, without Make's wrinkles and with the full portability of pure Java code.
What is Apache Maven?
Maven allows a project to build using its project object model (POM) and a set of plugins that are shared by all projects using Maven, providing a uniform build system. Once you familiarize yourself with how one Maven project builds you automatically know how all Maven projects build saving you immense amounts of time when trying to navigate many projects.
What is Pants?
Pants is a build system for Java, Scala and Python. It works particularly well for a source code repository that contains many distinct projects.
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Eclipse
Standard Eclipse package suited for Java and plug-in development plus adding new plugins; already includes Git, Marketplace Client, source code and developer documentation.
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Gradle
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Apache Tomcat
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Jenkins
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Make
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