Dependency Management: The build tools follow a component model that provides hints on where to look for dependencies. In Eclipse / Netbeans, you have to depend on a JAR and you don’t really know if this JAR has been updated or not. With these build tools, they ‘know’ updates in dependencies (generally because of a … Read more
I have tried using, both and I’d definitely recommend Gradle. While both of them have pretty much the same expressiveness, I found Gradle to be much more stable (since version 1.0), less effort to install, and better documented. Although Buildr is undoubtedly a great effort, at the moment Gradle is much more professionally made. The … Read more
I wouldn’t expect too much from Maven 3. The people behind the Maven pedigree of build tools have always held the assumption that project builds are homogeneous, that is: all build problems fundamentally boil down to the same problem. This view of the world can be held fairly consistently in the face of opposing views … Read more