There are plenty of new build tools on the market, including Maven and Gradle, but many organizations remain happy to use the Apache Ant tool in Java builds and application deploys. Here is why they ...

The rest of this tutorial examines how we would use Maven 2 on a simple Java Enterprise Edition project. The demo application involves an imaginary (and simplified) hotel database system.

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 ...

Gradle is a Java build tool without the out-of-the-box functionality of a tool like Maven but has the capability with smart build functionality to handle multiple projects at once.

If there are any outstanding changes, Maven won’t let you do a release. First of all, you need to prepare the release, using the “prepare” goal: <pre> $ mvn release:prepare </pre> ...