ivy or maven? which one to use? [closed]

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which one is better? Ant开发者_运维百科-IVY or Maven?.

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That really depends. From my experience I would suggest to use

• Maven for new projects - it is simply easier and less to worry about
• Ivy for old projects which have complicated and established build process in ANT - the conversion to maven may be real pain

It also serves slightly different purposes. Ivy is dependency management only and adds basically just some ant tasks (you are still in ANT) where Maven does lots of extra stuff (packaging, deploying, site generation etc.).