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Task running is more what Ant is for, isn't it? Maven is more of a dependency management tool than a task runner. A lot of Java projects use both tools together

by kyllo 12y ago

Task running is more what Ant is for, isn't it? Maven is more of a dependency management tool than a task runner. A lot of Java projects use both tools together for builds. I've never used it, but MSBuild sounds like Microsoft's version of Ant to me.

eropple 12y ago
MSBuild has a lot of Ant-yness to it, yes. However, I quibble with your definition of Maven as a dependency manager--it has one (and the independent implementation that can work with Maven repos is Apache Ivy) but I've never seen a Java project use both. Usually somebody jams some sort of runner into a Maven project as a different build step or something.
- kyllo 12y ago
  Usually somebody jams some sort of runner into a Maven project as a different build step or something Like this? http://maven.apache.org/ant-tasks/ http://maven.apache.org/ant-tasks/
  - eropple 12y ago
    If you're lucky. I've seen a lot more home-rolled ones in Java.
    - kyllo 12y ago
      Yeah... I've also worked on corporate Java projects with no Ant, Maven, nor hand-rolled substitute, where the build process was to download the dependencies' jars from the internet manually into /lib.