Java Build Tools
ANT
- This was the tool created by Apache foundation
- This build tool uses a configuration file called as build.xml
- Ant works based on configuration
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="MyAntProject" default="run" basedir=".">
<property name="src.dir" location="src"/>
<property name="build.dir" location="bin"/>
<property name="jar.dir" location="dist"/>
<target name="clean">
<delete dir="${build.dir}"/>
<delete dir="${jar.dir}"/>
</target>
<target name="makedir">
<mkdir dir="${build.dir}"/>
<mkdir dir="${jar.dir}"/>
</target>
<target name="compile" depends="makedir">
<javac srcdir="${src.dir}" destdir="${build.dir}"/>
</target>
<target name="jar" depends="compile">
<jar destfile="${jar.dir}/MyAntProject.jar" basedir="${build.dir}">
<manifest>
<attribute name="Main-Class" value="test.Main"/>
</manifest>
</jar>
</target>
<target name="run" depends="jar">
<java jar="${jar.dir}/MyAntProject.jar" fork="true"/>
</target>
</project>
Maven
- This is an opensource project hosted by apache
- Design goal:
- Convention over configuration
- include dependency and release management
- includes test execution
- can be configurable
- Maven build tool expects a file called
pom.xml (project object model)
- src
- main
- java
- *.java
- test
- java
- *.java
pom.xml
- POM (Project object model)
- Goals:
- clean: remove target folder
- verify: (verify the pom and project)
- compile: compile the java code and create class files in target folder
- test: run the unit tests and generate xml reports
- package: creates the package
- install: copy the package and pom to local repo (~/.m2)
- deploy: copy the package to remote repo
-
Maven will download dependencies in folder
~/.m2/repository
-
Installing Maven:
- Lets build the spring petclinic using maven with command
mvn package which will compile, run the tests and create the package
- in some projects we will see mvnw files these are called as maven wrappers, they install necessary version of maven and execute goal
- Central, Remote and Local Repos in Maven

Installing jdk
- JDK comes in different flavors
- openjdk
- eclipse temurin
- amazon correto
- oracle jdk
- to install openjdk 17 on ubuntu
sudo apt update
sudo apt install openjdk-17-jdk
java -version
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