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Maven

Each of Maven's features needs to be compared against different products as it encompasses a number of pieces of functionality. It's also worth noting that some of these tools could be integrated into Maven via plugins.

Build Tools

Should compare Ant, Maven 1.x, Maven 2.x, make

Dependency Management

	Maven 2.x	Maven 2.x Ant Tasks	Ivy	Maven 1.x
Transitive dependencies
Dependency ranges	bounded, unbounded, multiple ranges	"	up to next major version (2.0+)
Version comparison	defined order (eg 0.10 > 0.9), pluggable version syntax planned, falls back to string comparison	"	string comparison only
Conflict Resolution	nearest, latest-time (snapshots), fixed. planned: newest (latest-revision), oldest, fail	"	all, latest-time, latest-revision, fixed
Snapshots	configurable timestamping, build numbering, update frequency	"	can publish continuous integration build	auto-updated timestamped build
Profiles	pluggable activators, as well as by id, jdk, OS, sys property for whole build process including deps	no manual activation	single id configuration (must be defined consistently across all ivy configurations
Scope	defines known scopes for sensible build defaults, combined during transitivity	"	can use configurations in a limited way for this
Non-java dependencies	pluggable	"
Filtering	can exclude dependencies from tree, apply a version globally	when using POM		N/A
Multiproject	order determined by dependencies, and build outputs can be used as the dependencies (even if not built to a jar			only ordering
System scoped (tools.jar)	can be used transitively			jar overrides
Dependency reports	currently basic tabulated report		multi-page tabulated report
Eclipse plugin	in progress			Mevenide
IDEA plugin	in progress			Mevenide
NetBeans plugin	in progress			Mevenide
Eclipse .classpath generation
IDEA .iml generation
NetBeans project generation
Deployment	pluggable: file, scp, scpexe, http, ftp, sftp, scm	"	file only	file, scp, scpexe, ftp, sftp
Mirrors	can use mirror for any repository, automatic mirroring planned	planned
Maven 1.x Repository (non-transitive)
Maven 2.x Repository (transitive)
Ivyrep (transitive)
Multiple repository support	separate snapshot and release repository, per project repository	"	probably can list multiple repositories from build	can list multiple repositories from build

	Maven 1.x Repository	Maven 2.x Repository	Ivyrep
Size	8000+	8000+	30
Immediate Synchronize of OSS Releases
Artifacts
User uploads to central repository
Open sandbox repository

Site Management

	Maven 2.x	Maven 1.x
Plain text input
XDoc input
Docbook input
XHTML input
FAQ input
Confluence input	in progress
XHTML output
PDF output	planned
Reporting integration
Streaming
Skinnable	Velocity	JSL
Furniture customisation
Breadcrumbs

Other

Continuum

See Continuous Integration Server Feature Matrix

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