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TrustRadius Insights for Apache Ant are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Recommendations

Users have made several recommendations based on their experiences with Apache Ant. They suggest considering a more convention-based tool, such as Maven, Grunt, or Gulp, if Apache Ant is not applicable to other programming languages. Users also recommend updating Apache Ant to use Maven repositories and enable scripting in JavaScript or Groovy, which could make it a leading build tool again. Additionally, users emphasize that Apache Ant is well-suited for complex build processes and offers complete control over the build process when needed.

Apache Ant Reviews

1 Review

Apache Ant for deployment

Rating: 8 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have used Apache Ant as a deployment tool for out stake. We have created our complete java project for application using Apache Ant, and it's command line utility helps us to drive the process in easy way. Mainly we are using for developing java based application using Apache Ant.

Pros

  • Support non java application development as well
  • Flexible
  • XML scripting
  • Support any platform

Cons

  • Better lifecycle management can be done
  • So much configuration details needs to provide
  • Order of the flow needs to define in advance

Likelihood to Recommend

Apache Ant is suitable for the scenarios where central repository is not required for your developed application and It has a great architecture with less complexity and the situation where automated configuration is needed then Apache Ant is not suitable for that use case. Apache Ant is easy to use tool.
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Apache Ant
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