ant

By dreamreal · 23 March 2026 · 215 lookups

Text: ant is one of the oldest Java build tools, generally supplanting make for Java; XML-based and fully imperative, it does exactly what you tell it and nothing more, which means dependency management is your problem (see: Ivy). New projects should use something else.
URLs: https://ant.apache.org
Tags: build tool xml jvm legacy ivy