Since Ant, Maven, and Gradle are dominated in the JVM ecosystem as Java build automation tools, you may be familiar with Maven If you have ever worked on a Java Project.
Let’s explore how these Java build automation tools evolved in the JVM ecosystem.
- Apache Ant (“Another Neat Tool”) is a Java library which is used to automate the build processes for Java applications. Other than that it can be used for building non-Java applications.
- Apache Maven is a build automation tool and also a dependency management tool. It is primarily used for Java applications. Maven also uses XML files the same as Apache Ant but in a much more manageable way.
- Gradle is a dependency management and a build automation tool which was built upon the concepts of Ant and Maven.
In this article, I am going to discuss Maven as a dependency management tool.
