Apache Maven vs. Pants

The project build tool

Build tool.

Java build tool for internal processes: Jezebel daemon (in-mem classifiers/recommendations/feature analysis), Connemara (batch resume stream processor) and opes (opening elasticsearch plugin, simple process that listens for new incoming resumes and triggers analysis by Jezebel via a tcp json command).

Package management and build automation for the back-end, plus integration of front-end build automation using Gulp/Bower/NPM.

JEE application development cycle management.

Necessary for Google j2objc

All Java-Projects are compiled using Maven. We prefer it over Ant and Gradle as it combines lightweightness with feature-richness and offers basically all we can imagine from a software project-management tool and more.

package tool

Gradle is powerful, but it feels too tempting to put more logic than is necessary in the build scripts. I also don't find the need to learn another language for my projects right now.

Building Libraries for sites

use to compile and archive

Build and Dependency Management