Monday, January 28, 2008

Ant -Maven War:Ivy on the battlefield

Ivy is the new graduated dependency manager from Apache Ant project which is counterattack to Apache Maven project .
Which option is good for you?
Using ant as a build tool and then configure it via ivy maven-like behavior?Or
Using maven as a build tool and then use maven-ant tasks to get ant-like behavior?
You can find comparision of this tools in their website from 2 different perspectives.
It s up to you choose one of them.But in our internal repository server example I didnt correctly configure ivy to get jars from repository. Ivy can download jars from my repository if they are there.But if there are no jars to download artifactory can't get jars from internet which is default behaviour when I use maven.Maybe i can find answer or maybe I must use maven and ant tasks simply.who knows?But i like this war.

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