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[Image Results] Java Build Tools: Part 2 - A Decision Maker's Guide Comparison of Maven, Gradle and Ant + Ivy
The document compares Java build tools Maven, Gradle, and Ant + Ivy, focusing on their evolution and performance metrics from 1977 to 2013 and beyond. It provides detailed execution times for clean builds, incremental builds, and tests across the tools, highlighting Gradle's advantage in speed. Additionally, it discusses features such as IDE integration, dependency management, and overall usability, concluding with a scoring of each tool based on various criteria.
[Image Results] Java Build Tools: Part 2 - A Decision Maker's Guide Comparison of Maven, Gradle and Ant + Ivy
- 1. A DECISION MAKER’SCOMPARISON OF MAVEN, GRADLE AND ANT + IVY JAVA BUILD TOOLS: PART 2 Who will win "Least Annoying Build Tool"?
- 2. THE EVOLUTION OFBUILD TOOLS: 1977 - 2013 (AND BEYOND) Visual timeline 1977 MAKE, the world’s first build tool, released 1996 JDK 1.0 launched 1999 Apache Software Foundation created & first release of Tom cat 2000 Ant is born 2002 Maven 1.0 is launched 2003 Scala 1.0 is released 2004 Ivy is introduced 2005 Maven 2.0 is released 2008 Sim ple Build Tool (SBT) first version published 2012 Gradle 1.0 launched
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- 4. Command time mvn -Dmaven. test.skip=trueclean package time gradle clean build -x test --dae- mon time ant clean war Time - Run 1 (seconds) 6.458 3.302 7.414 Time - Run 2 (seconds) 6.112 3.215 7.466 Time - Run 3 (seconds) 7.042 3.29 7.361 Time - Run 4 (seconds) 6.266 3.622 7.359 Time - Run 5 (seconds) 5.218 3.433 7.222 Average (min /max omitted) 6.279 3.342 7.378 DOING A CLEAN BUILD WITHOUT TESTS
- 5. Command time mvn -Dma- ven.test.skip=true package timegradle build -x test --daemon time ant war Time - Run 1 (seconds) 5.405 3.1 4.758 Time - Run 2 (seconds) 5.625 3.628 4.808 Time - Run 3 (seconds) 5.399 4.185 4.856 Time - Run 4 (seconds) 5.966 3.094 4.822 Time - Run 5 (seconds) 5.625 4.259 4.904 Average (min /max omitted) 5.552 3.638 4.829 INCREMENTAL BUILD WITHOUT TESTS
- 6. Command time mvn clean package timegradle clean build --daemon time ant clean war test Time - Run 1 (seconds) 13.506 11.369 13.641 Time - Run 2 (seconds) 13.093 14.86 13.457 Time - Run 3 (seconds) 12.543 10.898 13.437 Time - Run 4 (seconds) 13.755 13.013 13.354 Time - Run 5 (seconds) 14.527 15.146 13.593 Average (min /max omitted) 13.451 13.081 13.496 DOING A CLEAN BUILD WITH TESTS
- 7. Command time mvnpackage time gradle build --daemon time ant war test Time - Run 1 (seconds) 13.846 9.386 11.762 Time - Run 2 (seconds) 12.998 10.648 10.61 Time - Run 3 (seconds) 13.646 9.811 10.795 Time - Run 4 (seconds) 13.426 9.976 10.689 Time - Run 5 (seconds) 12.785 10.302 10.632 Average (min /max omitted) 13.357 10.030 10.705 INCREMENTAL BUILD WITH TESTS
- 8. Test time for cleanbuild (seconds) 7.173 9.739 6.118 Test time for incremental build (seconds) 7.805 6.392 5.877 Average 7.489 8.066 5.997 THE COST OF TEST
- 9. Command rm -rf ~/.m2/repos- itory&& time mvn clean package rm -rf ~/.m2/re- pository && rm -rf ~/.gradle/caches/ && time gradle clean build --dae- mon rm -rf ~/.ivy2/ cache/ && time ant clean war test Time - Run 1 (seconds) 41.393 35.412 136 Time - Run 2 (seconds) 37.418 33.402 133 Time - Run 3 (seconds) 36.797 30.548 137 Time - Run 4 (seconds) 42.656 30.336 141 Time - Run 5 (seconds) 39.637 35.369 129 Average (min /max omitted) 39.483 33.106 135.333 DOING A CLEAN BUILD WITH TESTS (DOWNLOAD DEPENDENCIES)
- 10. Tasks IDEs Eclipse IDEANetBeans Eclipse IDEA NetBeans Eclipse IDEA NetBeans Import a project build structure into IDE yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes Submit a build from IDE yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes Dependency management in IDE yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes Automatic download of dependencies yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes Support/Wizard to create build scripts yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes Enablement plugin built-in built-in plugin built-in plugin Ant: built-in Ivy: plugin Ant: built-in Ivy: plugin Ant: built-in Ivy: plugin
- 11. Tasks Server > TCJB GF J WS WL TC JB GF J WS WL TC JB GF J WS WL Start/ Stop Servers yes yes yes yes yes yes yes no no yes no no yes yes yes yes yes yes Deploy an app yes yes yes yes yes yes yes no no yes no no yes yes yes yes yes yes APP SERVERS TC =Tomcat JB = JBoss GF = GlassFish J = Jetty WS = WebSphere (inc. Liberty Profile) WL = WebLogic
- 12. Tasks Jenkins/ Hudson Bamboo Team City Jenkins/ Hudson BambooTeam City Jenkins/ Hudson Bamboo Team City Run build scripts yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes multimodule project detection/incremental builds yes yes yes yes yes yes yes no no automatic JUnit test results publishing yes yes yes no* no* yes no* no* no* automatic archiving/ publishing of artifacts yes yes yes no** yes yes no** no** no** detection of new builds of dependencies yes yes yes no no yes yes no no Enablement built-in plugin built-in plugin plugin built-in Ant : built-in Ivy : plugin plugin built-in CI SERVERS *CI needs to be told where junit report files are located **CI needs to be told where are the newly built artifacts
- 13. Learning Curve 34 3 Build Speed 4.5 4.5 3.5 Complexity 1.5 4.5 3 Plugins 4 3 3 Community & Docs 3 5 2 Developer Tools Integration 5 3 4 Total 21 24 18.5
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