Question

What is the difference between ANT and Maven?

Answer 1

ANT	Maven
ANT has no formal conventions, so information is to be provided in the build.xml file. ANT is procedural. ANT has no life cycle. ANT scripts are not reusable. ANT is specifically a build tool.	Maven has conventions, so information is not to be provided in the pom.xml file. Maven is declarative. Maven has a life cycle. Maven is mainly used as a project management tool. Maven plugins are reusable.