Just Do It!
After announcing my plans to compare Ant, Maven and Gradle implementations in my previous post Ant, Maven, Gradle…or something else… almost 2 months ago, I have finally found some time to begin my little experiment.
The initial implementation involves the use of Ant with Ivy, to build and test a simple Java class. Dependencies including Ivy itself, JUnit 4.8.2 and OpenPojo should be obtained as part of the build itself. Anyone wishing to use the build should only require a working Java environment and Ant installed. It appeared to be simple enough in principle. It turns out to be a little more complicated in practice.
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