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Difference between Maven vs Ant

Maven vs Ant both are very popular open source build tools provided Apache. Both have same goal to make easy to build process, deployment process of project. Beside from this these similarities then have major differences to each other as following..

Maven vs Ant

Maven	ANT
Maven uses a more declarative approach means you have to define in the Maven POM file(pom.xml).	Ant uses an imperative approach means you have to specify in the Ant build file(build.xml) what actions Ant should take.
Maven has default directory layout.	Ant has no default directory layout.
Maven has Build Life Cycles, Phases and Goals.	Ant has no life cycle.
Maven is a framework.	Ant is a tool.
Maven build is a reusable as a plug in	Ant build file not reusable
Maven is a more than build tool like project management, dependency resolving etc.	Ant is a build tool
Maven is more preferable because of its flexibility and re-usability	Ant is less preferable

Dinesh Rajput

Dinesh Rajput is the chief editor of a website Dineshonjava, a technical blog dedicated to the Spring and Java technologies. It has a series of articles related to Java technologies. Dinesh has been a Spring enthusiast since 2008 and is a Pivotal Certified Spring Professional, an author of a book Spring 5 Design Pattern, and a blogger. He has more than 10 years of experience with different aspects of Spring and Java design and development. His core expertise lies in the latest version of Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Security, creating REST APIs, Microservice Architecture, Reactive Pattern, Spring AOP, Design Patterns, Struts, Hibernate, Web Services, Spring Batch, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Web Application Design and Architecture. He is currently working as a technology manager at a leading product and web development company. He worked as a developer and tech lead at the Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd and was the first developer in his previous company, Paytm. Dinesh is passionate about the latest Java technologies and loves to write technical blogs related to it. He is a very active member of the Java and Spring community on different forums. When it comes to the Spring Framework and Java, Dinesh tops the list!