Tutorials

1. Introduction

	MAVEN	ANT
1	It is mainly a project management tool. Included build, documentation, reporting	It is mainly a build tool.
2	Maven plugins are reusable.	ANT scripts are not reusable
3	Maven has a life cycle	ANT has No life cycle
4	Maven is declarative everything you define in the 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.
5	Maven has a convention to place source code, compiled code etc. So we don’t need to provide information about the project structure in the pom.xml file.	Ant doesn’t have formal conventions, so we need to provide information of the project structure in the build.xml file.