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

I've never used GNU Make for Java projects, but I used to use jmk. Sadly it hasn't been updated since 2002.

It had some Java-specific functionality but was small enough to include in your source tarball without significantly increasing its size.

Nowadays I just assume any Java developer I share code with has Ant installed.