Comparison Table: Ant vs. Maven

	Ant	Maven
Installation	Very easy	Very easy (very similar to Ant)
Time to start a new project	5 minutes	15 minutes
Time to add a new functionality	10 minutes to add a new target	2 minutes to use a new goal
Time to learn for a new developer	30 minutes. Very easy to understand, and very good tool support.	2 hours. Can be confusing at the beginning.
Standard layout	No (which is good; you can do whatever you want).	Yes (which is good, all your projects will look the same).
Multi-project support	Yes, but you have to do your own master build file.	Yes, with the Maven Reactor
Documentation generation	No standard way to do it, but there are plenty of available tools.	Yes
IDE integration	Yes	Very basic