Ant

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Introduction to Ant

Ant is an open-source and free to use build automation tool for a.o. Java applications. It consists of a Java library and a command line tool which uses a build file (build.xml) to drive certain processes. Those processes can be:

• Move/Copy files
• Run Unit tests
• Compile the Java source code
• Create an executable wrapper around a jar file
• ...and much more

The Apache Ant project is part of the Apache Software Foundation. More information can be found on the Ant website.

Installation

Ant can be downloaded in the [section] of the Ant website. Also, a complete [Apache Ant Manual] is available on their website. Please go to the [Apache Ant Manual] for the specific steps.

To summarize, the installation procedure consists of the following steps:

• Download Ant
• Unzip the downloaded file
• Set environment variables JAVA_HOME and ANT_HOME and add %ANT_HOME%/bin to the PATH variable.

Configuration

Configuration Procedure