There are numerous ways in which Groovy can be applied to build Java-based applications. These building approaches range from invoking commands like javac and jar directly from Groovy code to ...

In any substantial software engineering project, the build tool is one of the most important parts of the developer’s toolkit. Without a solid build tool, the process of compiling, packaging, and ...

The NetBeans IDE provides JUnit integration that can be very handy when writing and running JUnit-based unit tests. However, I like to be able to do anything I might do often outside of the IDE as ...

Ant is a Java- and XML-based build tool from Apache's Jakarta project. Ant has the capacity to move files around using a very rich set of include/exclude directives and can move files via FTP. Peter ...

You may already use the Apache Ant Java-based build tool to build projects with a presupplied build.xml file. But what if you want to do something more complicated? Knowing how Ant works under the ...

It takes a LOT of time doing it manually one build.xml file at a time. Any good tools to automate the process? <BR><BR>I would like to compile ALL the open source source code used and referenced in ...