Difference between Ant and Maven
Ant and Maven both are build tools provided by Apache. The main purpose of these technologies is to ease the build process of a project.
There are many differences between ant and maven that are given below:
| Ant | Maven |
|---|---|
| Ant doesn't have formal conventions, so we need to provide information about the project structure in the build.xml file. | Maven has a convention to place source code, compiled code etc. So we don't need to provide information about the project structure in pom.xml file. |
| Ant is procedural, you need to provide information about what to do and when to do through code. You need to provide order. | Maven is declarative, everything you define in the pom.xml file. |
| There is no life cycle in Ant. | There is life cycle in Maven. |
| It is a tool box. | It is a framework. |
| It is mainly a build tool. | It is mainly a project management tool. |
| The ant scripts are not reusable. | The maven plugins are reusable. |
| It is less preferred than Maven. | It is more preferred than Ant. |
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