what is ivy? and how it is related to ant?

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GuruKulki picture GuruKulki · Jan 2, 2010 · Viewed 17.3k times · Source

I have seen many ivy files in my application's build projects. What is Ivy, and its relation with ant?

Answer

skaffman picture skaffman · Jan 2, 2010

Ivy is an Ant extension for managing external libraries during the development process, giving you a way of adding them to your classpath, bundling them into your application build, etc.

There's some overlap with what Maven does, but Ivy is much more lightweight (and doesn't do as much).

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