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 ...

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 ...

Every once in a while, I’m reminded of a few subtle nuances of Ant properties that can, when forgotten, lead to confusion when dealing with Ant. In particular, the fact that Ant properties are ...