If you're a Java developer, you know that there are several options available for building, compiling and packaging your code. Most IDEs will build code for you. You can also compile code on the ...

There are dozens of Java build tools available, but only a few of them truly dominate. When it's time to choose one, the key runners in the race are Maven, Ant and Gradle. All three are effective in ...

Ant has been widely celebrated as the future of build processing. In fact, it represents a great improvement over previous make tools: it is extendible, multiplatform, and standard-based. Some Ant ...

One of convenient classes that Groovy provides is the AntBuilder class, whose purpose is best described in the Javadoc-based documentation: “Allows Ant tasks to be used with GroovyMarkup.” The ...