When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Apache Tomcat easier to use, set up, and administer. Reviewers also preferred doing business with Apache Tomcat overall.
Apache Ant is simple, no fuss and ridiculously easy to pick up. A few additional frameworks exist to provide functionality that makes it even more powerful, such as the conditionals, logic and dependency management. As a build tool, it is very customizable...
Old and seems unmaintained. It's difficult to write large tasks
Easy to use. Good documentation to get started
1. XML as configuration file. It's ugly and the parsing is hard
Apache Ant is simple, no fuss and ridiculously easy to pick up. A few additional frameworks exist to provide functionality that makes it even more powerful, such as the conditionals, logic and dependency management. As a build tool, it is very customizable...
Easy to use. Good documentation to get started
Old and seems unmaintained. It's difficult to write large tasks
1. XML as configuration file. It's ugly and the parsing is hard