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... interesting article about issues faced by migrating from java8 to java9, and how to fix them https://dzone.com/articles/migrating-a-spring-boot-application-to-java-9-comp

Ivy is a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and reporting) project dependencies. It is characterized by the following: 1- flexibility and configurability - Ivy is essentially process agnostic and is not tied to any methodology or structure. Instead it provides the necessary flexibility and configurability to be adapted to a broad range of dependency management and build processes. 2- tight integration with Apache Ant - while available as a standalone tool, Ivy works particularly well with Apache Ant providing a number of powerful Ant tasks ranging from dependency resolution to dependency reporting and publication... http://ant.apache.org/ivy/index.html