Why is no one using make for Java?

Question

Just about every Java project that I\'ve seen either uses Maven or Ant. They are fine tools and I think just about any project can use them. But what ever happened to make

Answer 1

Ant is an XML configuration oriented improvement over Makefiles and Maven is a dependency build tool improvement over Ant. Some projects use all three. I think the JDK projects used to use a mix of makefiles and ant.