In the post AntBuilder: Groovy Meets Ant, I talked about how AntBuilder combines the best of Ant with Groovy. The Groovy Almanac post Using Ant build.xml and Antbuilder demonstrates how easy it is to ...

Launch multiple apps at once, clear temporary files, and more.

There are dozens of Java build tools available, but only a few of them truly dominate. When it's time to choose one, the key runners in the race are Maven, Ant and Gradle. All three are effective in ...

File creation is perhaps one of the most trivial tasks you perform on your computer almost every day. If you’re a Windows user, you probably do it via the graphical interface. Although this approach ...