Does eclipse must depend on one of the build tool like ANT

If no ant or other build tool, can eclipse开发者_JAVA技巧 itself handle large project?

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While eclipse can handle large projects, it is in most cases necessary to use an IDE-independant build tool, like ant or maven:

• should be able to produce deployable artifact with one command
• should not be tied to a particular IDE. Team members may choose different IDEs
• should be usable from command line and continuous integration tools

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Without a build tool you lose:

• reproducability: Builds from your machine will likely look different from you coworkers. You might have a different plugin installed, a different JDK configured ... a build tool will minimize these dependencies.

• continuous integration: No way to do that without a build too.

• IDE independence. What if somebody wants to use Netbeans or IDEA because it would help tremendously with the next task?