What are some good java make utilities?

Question

I\'m looking for a make utility for building large java programs. I\'m aware of ANT already, but want to see what else is available.

Ideally, it should be able to handle

Answer 1

Unless Maven has really improved recently, I'd steer well clear of it. Unless you have some kind of monster "multi-project" with a gazillion dependencies of course.

After getting sick of looking at completely useless and unhelpful errors when attempting to do the simplest things (like FTP a war file to a server), Maven was thrown away and Ant dusted off. I haven't looked back since.