Have you considered using "Maven" or "Gradle" instead of "Ant" for building and running?
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
- Ant is too old and currently has few projects to use, Maven and Gradle are the mainstream.
- Using more mainstream and advanced building tools is beneficial for new developers to quickly join in.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing VisualVM's current Ant-based build and identifying how its build and run workflows are organized. Compare the required workflows with Maven and Gradle, then define the migration scope and acceptance criteria before changing anything; the issue does not name files or tests.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100