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Apache Ant vs EventBus: What are the differences?

Developers describe Apache Ant as "Java based build tool". 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. On the other hand, EventBus is detailed as "An open-source library for Android and Java". It enables central communication to decoupled classes with just a few lines of code – simplifying the code, removing dependencies, and speeding up app development.

Apache Ant and EventBus can be categorized as "Java Build" tools.

Some of the features offered by Apache Ant are:

  • The most complete Java build and deployment tool available.
  • Platform neutral and can handle platform specific properties such as file separators
  • Can be used to perform platform specific tasks such as modifying the modified time of a file using 'touch' command

On the other hand, EventBus provides the following key features:

  • Simple yet powerful
  • Battle tested
  • High Performance

Apache Ant and EventBus are both open source tools. It seems that EventBus with 21.5K GitHub stars and 4.35K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Apache Ant with 253 GitHub stars and 256 GitHub forks.

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    Cons of Apache Ant
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      Slow
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      Old and not widely used anymore
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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 EventBus?

      It enables central communication to decoupled classes with just a few lines of code – simplifying the code, removing dependencies, and speeding up app development.

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