Apache Ant VS Grails

Apache Ant Reviews

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Apache Ant mentions (6)

• Want to Get Better at Java? Go Old School.

  I will not suggest truly old-school Java programming. When I started in Java, we built Java classes with the javac command. This led to writing shell scripts to build complex projects and finally, Makefiles using the Unix and Windows commands make and nmake respectively. I remember being thrilled when the Ant utility came out and we had a pure Java build tool. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• I am about to write my first code but god has a different plan.

  Didn't know that people still use Ant for building their source code. Source: almost 2 years ago

• I am about to write my first code but god has a different plan.

  OP is just running this https://ant.apache.org/, nothing to worry about. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Better CI/CD caching with new-gen build systems

  A build system is a program that orchestrates the execution of underlying tools such as compilers, code generators, test runners, linters and so on. Examples of build systems include the venerable Make, the JVM-centric Ant, Maven and Gradle, and newer systems such as Pants and Bazel (full disclosure: I am one of the maintainers of Pants). - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• Build error when running 'nix build', running build steps by hand with 'nix develop' works

  You are missing a dependency: antlr. You have ant instead, which is something completely different. Source: almost 2 years ago

Grails mentions (5)

• RIFE2 web framework under development

  And frameworks like Grails build conventions and helpers on top of Spring. Source: over 1 year ago

• Web app in Java with Template Engine

  I don't have any direct experience and am only suggesting it because you mentioned RoR...But Grails (https://grails.org/) is basically the JVM version of RoR (Groovy on Rails -> Grails). Source: over 1 year ago

• Libraries other than Spring Boot for creating web APIs

  Grails - Spring under the hood. Much less boilerplate. Opinionated, which helps keep things consistent. Uses Spring-Security plugin for authentication. Source: almost 2 years ago

• "get-it-done" MVC web framework like Django in Java?

  Also, Grails, which a Rails like framework build on Groovy, a JVM scripting language. Source: over 2 years ago

• How to Build Java Applications Today: April 5, 2021

  Any JVM language to the rescue here? There’s one, but it’s not the one you’re thinking about. In a sign that this index may not accurately reflect our project reality, Groovy saw a meteoric rise of 0.86% to 1.04% last year! That was good for place 17. Yep, Groovy! Are people writing Gradle plugins in Groovy? Or is Grails having a resurgence? I’m as baffled as you are. - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago