This is an Ant Tutorial, to learn by example how to use Ant to build your Java projects. Ant is a Java-based build tool from the Apache project that was originally bundled with early versions of Tomcat. Its creator had become dissatisfied with make as a way of building Tomcat from source and developed a tool to make his life easier. Ant was designed to fix the problems with make described previously and so mirrored the portability aims of Java. The build tools helps the programmers to build their complex application and place the files in the desired location with less effort. The Ant is different tool then make , gnumake , nmake , jam build tool as Instead of a model where it is extended with shell-based commands, Ant is extended using Java classes. Instead of writing shell commands, the configuration files are XML-based, calling out a target tree where various tasks get executed. Each task is run by an object that implements a particular Task interface in ant.
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