From 4e14def32472f133e4c289c401feb1b542cf8180 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shankar Rao Mata Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 09:43:17 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] added description about Ant build tool (#21202) --- guide/english/java/build-tools/index.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/guide/english/java/build-tools/index.md b/guide/english/java/build-tools/index.md index 5cb865a2ac..7413a7f6c7 100644 --- a/guide/english/java/build-tools/index.md +++ b/guide/english/java/build-tools/index.md @@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ Gradle build scripts can be written in Groovy or Kotlin and are highly customiza ## Maven Maven build files are written with XML. Like Gradle, many plugins are written for Maven to customize your builds, however Maven is not as customizable because you cannot directly interact with a Maven API. However, you can modify certain configurations by modifying your settings.xml file in the .m2 folder. More info available [here](https://maven.apache.org/settings.html) + +## Ant +Ant was one of the first build tool which got popular in 2000s to be one of the highest used build tool for java based projects. It was very easy to learn and was based on procedural programming paradigm. In Ant XML format was used to write the build scripts. + ### More Information: https://gradle.org/ @@ -18,3 +22,5 @@ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradle https://maven.apache.org/what-is-maven.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Maven + +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Ant