Comparison Table: Ant vs. Maven

Filed under: Maven

I just found a nice comparison chart of Ant vs. Maven in this article by Julien Dubois:

  Ant Maven
Installation Very easy Very easy (very similar to Ant)
Time to start a new project 5 minutes 15 minutes
Time to add a new functionality 10 minutes to add a new target 2 minutes to use a new goal
Time to learn for a new developer 30 minutes. Very easy to understand, and very good tool support. 2 hours. Can be confusing at the beginning.
Standard layout No (which is good; you can do whatever you want). Yes (which is good, all your projects will look the same).
Multi-project support Yes, but you have to do your own master build file. Yes, with the Maven Reactor
Documentation generation No standard way to do it, but there are plenty of available tools. Yes
IDE integration Yes Very basic

Jan 27, 2006 at 17:26 | Permalink

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