Java Build Tools: Ant vs Maven vs GradleIn the beginning there was Make as the only build tool available. Later on it was improved with GNU Make. However, since then our needs increased and, as a result, build tools evolved. JVM ecosystem is dominated with three build tools: Apache Ant with Ivy Maven Gradle Ant with Ivy Ant was the first among “modern” build tools. In many aspects it is similar to Make. It was released in 2000 and in a
