As the size and complexities of Ant files started to increase for enterprise software, developers started searching for better solutions. Maven easily fitted as a solution, as it introduced the concept of conventions over configurations. If you follow certain conventions, it saves a lot of time by skipping boilerplate code. Maven also provided a dependency management solution that was one of the major drawbacks of the Ant tool. Ant didn't provide any dependency management solution whereas Maven came with a built-in dependency manager.
When we discussed migration strategies from Ant to Gradle, you learned that the simplest solution is to import the Ant build.xml file and use it as it is. For Maven migration, we do not have such a feature. Maven users might find it easy to migrate from Maven to Gradle, as both follow these common principles:
Convention over configurations
Dependency management solution
Repositories configuration
To migrate from Maven to Gradle, we will need...