Build IntelliJ artifacts from command line

Question

I recently started using IntelliJ to build my GWT project. During my deployment process I have to build the necessary war file for the deploy, and the way I do that in my IntelliJ project is by going to build Artifacts, find the artifact there and go from there.

I was wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of a good tutorial to automate this process? I heard Ant might do what I need but I am unsure. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

ant, Maven and Gradle to name a few could all be used.

Personally I find Gradle is the quickest to get up to speed with for beginners as there is less boilerplate code to write.