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 ...

Nontrivial software projects need build tools. In the Java world, there's no shortage of these tools, with Ant being the standard. Maven is another project management/build tool on the open source ...

Have you ever been assigned to an existing project where the original programmers are nowhere to be found? Or given source code from a third party and told to fix a bug, only to find there isn’t any ...