There are dozens of Java build tools available, but only a few of them truly dominate. When it's time to choose one, the key runners in the race are Maven, Ant and Gradle. All three are effective in ...

As software development teams get larger, application packaging and deployment tasks become much harder. Handwritten scripts and low-level JDK utility calls just don't scale as teams grow, which is ...

In any substantial software engineering project, the build tool is one of the most important parts of the developer’s toolkit. Without a solid build tool, the process of compiling, packaging, and ...

We review the build automation and DevOps tool, Maven. Learn about its features, benefits, pricing, and pros and cons. Apache Maven is an open-source build automation and DevOps tool that has become ...

Pants is a fast, remote-friendly, and ergonomic build tool for multiple languages including Python, Go, Java, and Scala. Let’s take a look. The Pants build system is a polyglot tool with a slew of ...

The drive towards newer Java versions and updated enterprise specifications isn’t just about keeping up with the latest tech; ...

Google this week released a new open source tool designed to simplify the task of containerizing a Java application. The new tool, called Jib, is a fast and simple container image builder that ...