Java Developers: Is Ant still in the "main stream" for builds? Do we push new developers to learn it?
- by Sam Goldberg
We have been slowly replacing batch command files (windows .bat) which were simply jarring up the classes compiled in the developers IDE, with more comprehensive Ant builds (i.e. get from CVS, clean compile, jar, archive, email, etc.)
I've spent a lot of time learning (and debugging issues) with Ant, so I'm most comfortable using it for these…