Maven or Ant? - DZone JavaMaven vs. Ant is one of the semi-religious topics (like IntelliJ vs. Eclipse, SWT vs. Swing or Spring vs. EJB). Depending on your specific needs, both build tools may be interesting. Ant is just a framework, or a build-DSL, which cannot be used out of the box. You have to create your build-script from existing Ant-tasks. The Ant tasks do not presrcibe any conventions or configuration, the definiti
