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Differences between Ant and Maven

Could someone tell me the differences between Ant and Maven? I have never used either. I understand that they are used to automate the building of Java projects, but I do not know where to start from.
rtacconi
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Is Ant still the best choice for a Java build tool?

From my small amount of experience, I've only used Ant as a build tool. Are there any other projects which are better, and why?
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Project management/build tools for a Django project?

Coming from Java development where build and project management tools abound, I'd like to know what's available for Django. I'd really like to use something like Maven for building things, but is there another preferred way of doing it? I'm really…
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Automating builds from subversion tags

I'm trying to automate the build process for engineering group. As part of that automation, I'm trying to get to a point where the act of applying a specific tag that adheres to a pattern will kick off an automated process that will do the…
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How do I enable undo in eclipse ant editor?

Undo is not working for me in ant editor in eclipse. When I press Ctrl-Z nothing happens. Is it possible to enable undo somehow or is this a bug? I am using Eclipse 3.4.2 (Ganymede) on Windows XP Professional.
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How can I ignore command line variable assignment in a recursive build?

I'm trying to glue two build systems together. Both are recursive (rules in the makefile use make to call other makefiles to build components of the project). I'll call them 'A' and 'B' where 'A' builds the application and 'B' builds libraries used…
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How to use master pom file to checkout all modules of a web application and build all modules

I have a web application that relies on several modules. So to build it, I have a master pom.xml file. What I want this pom file to do is to checkout out all the modules. below is my pom file. …
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Need primer for a Msbuild newbie

We maintain a medium sized windows application developed in vb/c# .net in work. Still now the build and deploy process for this app is manual. I am determined to make this process automated using MSBuild on which i have no knowledge still now. Our…
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GNU make with many target directories

I have to integrate the generation of many HTML files in an existing Makefile. The problem is that the HTML files need to reside in many different directories. My idea is to write an implicit rule that converts the source file (*.st) to the…
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TFS Build CopyDirectory error not stopping build

I have a CopyDirectory step in my build template, and I was assuming that if it finds a directory that does not exist, it would throw errors. However, it is only throwing a warning, and the build itself is marked successful. I've tried to wrap it…
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Multiple commands with Maven Exec plugin

I am struggeling a bit with the Maven Exec plugin. I want to execute two seperate mvn commands using the plugin so I only need to execute mvn exec:exec in order to execute all commands. The following two commands work well seperately: …
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Managing multiple versions in cruise-control, team city, etc

In my shop (as I expect it is in most), you have multiple releases of different software components (let's call them foo-client and bar-service). In my cc.net configuration, I currently have one "project" for foo-client at trunk, one project for…
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HA Jenkins setup

I am interested to setup high availability Jenkins environment with the following setup: 2 active/passive jenkins masters that will use the same slaves Proxy or load balancer which can perform automatic or manual failover. I found out that apache…
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Legacy C++ project using Makefile ..moving to Eclipse IDE?

I have a legacy C++ project on Linux which uses the typical: ./configure make make install to build and install. I would really like to build it instead with an IDE like Eclipse. Is this doable? Is there something in Eclipse that can parse the…
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Multi platform build & CI server

we use UrbanCode's AnthillPro build and CI server to build our C++ multi platform applications in a number of environments: linux, windows, solaris, hp-ux and aix. Yes, I know that AnthillPro was initially not designed to build C++ applications -…
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