Java By Source

In the beginning, there was Make as the only build tool available. Later on, it was improved with GNU Make. However, since then our needs increased and, as a result, build tools evolved. The whole JVM ecosystem is dominated by three build tools: Apache Ant with Ivy Maven Gradle Ant with Ivy Pros First among modern build tools, Similar to Make. Easy to learn, that's why it became popular very soon. Through Ant, you can have complete control over the build process. Ant has the ability to include plugins. Each element of work (a target in Ant’s lingo) can be combined and reused Cons Based on procedural programming paradigm. Ant uses XML as the format. Ant XML files speedily become unmanageably big even for small projects. Ant does not have the predefined set of build cycles, we need to write the scripts for everything. Ant is simply a Build tool, It doesn’t have dependency management system. Later on, as dependency management over the network became a must, Ant adopted Apache Ivy.Late...