Correct dependency handling and implicit rules, for one. The amount of effort required to translate %.o: %.c into ant is unbelievable. You can use the dep

Correct dependency handling and implicit rules, for one. The amount of effort required to translate %.o: %.c into ant is unbelievable. You can use the depend tasks but those require you to know your dependencies ahead of time and take explicit action to check them. It is more a measure of how unbelievable maven 2 is that ant looks pretty good in comparison, because ant is terrible at most things other than running javac.