<div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Chris Fowler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Oh yea, why is make not good enough for Java? Is it because the syntax<br>
is so cryptic that Ant had to be created? I only say this from<br>
experience. I tried to craft a whole build process in Perl for this<br>
project and after going back to the GNU Make manual I've ditched it and<br>
went back to make. :P<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div> Many (most?) java people didn't come from a unix background so wouldn't have had the background to know about make. I've seen plenty of java makefiles, so they do exist.<div>
<br></div><div>There are a number of build tools in the java space; ant is probably the widest used. Maven is used (and loved, or hated, and rarely anywhere between) in a lot of places, and a new upstart called Gradle (based on Groovy) is making inroads.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The recent joke amongst us java folk is "The big difference between ant and maven is that the author of ant has apologized."<br><div><br><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><div>
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