yut wrote:On the J2EE side, we have ANT and all these great build tools. ANT is even great for non-Java builds, and the irony is, I will probably end up using it to build these .NET installers...
In my experience, Ant is awful for non-Java builds. You'd be better off using make.
Besides, Maven is a million times better than Ant, especially for very large projects with complex dependencies.