Sensitive Can be set in an external file Task can use/reference this property by “$ Project properties can be set using the tag Example: Ī set of properties They are kind of Variables. One or more A defines set of A may depend on other A gets executed only once A has properties which determines how it will be executed A can be specified when executing ant from command line Example: īe executed Can have multiple attributes Ant has some built-in ready to be used tasks Example: jar is the command, destfile is the parameter This ant task has the same name as the common java command-line utility, JAR, but is really a call to the ant program's built in jar/zip file support. The project basedir: The base directory for path calculation.If not set then directory of the build file will be taken as the basedir default: The default target to be called when no target is specified in command line.
Project tag(only one ) Task tag Target Tag (at least one) The JAVA_HOME environment variable to your JDK Īn XML file Its the default file where ant will look for what to build, how to build Has projects, targets, tasks Ĭontains the following: Root Tag : Child Tag: (at least one) Sub Child Tag: The ANT_HOME environment variable to the directory where you installed Ant Why create another tool when make, gnumake, jam, nmake already exist? They all have some limitations They are more Shell Based Limits you to one kind of OS ĭifferent Ant has Java Class like extensions Use of XML instead of Shell Scripts Each task is taken care by creating its object Standardized Platform Independent Ĭan get Ant from the following links: Apache Ant Homepage: (Download > Current Release of Ant > apache-ant-bin.zip 11MB Approx) IDE: Ant comes in as bundled 3 rd party tool/modules with IDEs like Eclipse, Netbeans, Jdeveloper,IntelliJ IDEA In theory, it is kind of like Make, but without Make's wrinkles” -Apache Ant Website Apache Ant Hussain Fakhruddin Īnt is a Java-based build tool.
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