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 ...

There are numerous ways in which Groovy can be applied to build Java-based applications. These building approaches range from invoking commands like javac and jar directly from Groovy code to ...

You may already use the Apache Ant Java-based build tool to build projects with a presupplied build.xml file. But what if you want to do something more complicated? Knowing how Ant works under the ...