Generic ant rules script as an alternative to using Maven

Android has an ant script file with generic targets for comp开发者_运维问答ile, clean, etc.

Are there any open source ant scripts that define standard targets such as these for general java projects?

I don't want to bother installing and using maven, but I also don't want to bother creating and maintaining ant scripts for each project.

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I'm guessing you are new to both Maven and Ant. If I'm wrong you can ignore the rest of this post :)

I don't know of any generic open source Ant files. I've never had the need to look for one. I think its well worth the effort to learn Ant and create your own generic script. Ant is easy to learn and it is a very flexible, powerful and reliable build tool. You'll find it quite easy to create a build file that you can reuse over and over again on different projects.

With regards to having to maintain Ant scripts, its a bit of a fallacy. You'll find that once you've got a script that works in a generic way you'll hardly ever have to touch it again except when you need to do things in a custom way (usually around packaging and deployment). When that happens, you'll be glad you're using a tool like Ant that gives you the flexibility to do what you want to be able to do without getting in your way.