Maven Vs Ivy

I have been using maven in my projects for over 3 years, when i heard about Ivy dependency manager. Am curious to know how it differs from the maven and ant tools.

There are lot of blog entries debating the maven vs ivy.

Maven and Ivy are not exactly similar tools. Maven does lot of project management tooling with dependency management for artifacts. Ivy where as provide only dependency management, of course fine grained than maven. With Ivy we can chose what are the transitive dependency artifacts for an artifact.

I go with Maven and ANT for any specific customization.

The following link discusses more about Ivy and maven dependency management - http://www.objectcommando.com/blog/?p=12