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 ...

I spent part of the last week migrating Platypus from Ant to Maven 2. This is a migration I’ve been itching to do for a while. I don’t much like Ant, because I find I spend far too much time ...

Traditional Java applications capture runtime variables in property files, then package them into individual JARs for various software environments. But for users of Maven, it could make better sense ...