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Dev0Ps Krishna: Apache ANT

Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool that uses XML files to automate tasks like compiling code, packaging binaries, and deploying applications. It helps developers save time on repetitive tasks by executing them from the command line. Ant files define targets that contain tasks like compiling, with Ant providing predefined and custom tasks. It is platform-independent and can integrate with IDEs. Users set environment variables to install Ant and verify it by running commands from the command prompt. A project's default build file is typically named build.xml and contains a project element and at least one target.

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Dev0Ps Krishna: Apache ANT

Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool that uses XML files to automate tasks like compiling code, packaging binaries, and deploying applications. It helps developers save time on repetitive tasks by executing them from the command line. Ant files define targets that contain tasks like compiling, with Ant providing predefined and custom tasks. It is platform-independent and can integrate with IDEs. Users set environment variables to install Ant and verify it by running commands from the command prompt. A project's default build file is typically named build.xml and contains a project element and at least one target.

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Apache ANT

 Another Neat Tool(ANT) is a java based tool from Apaches

 Ant build files are written in XML and they take advantage of being open standard,
portable and easy to understand.

Why Ant is needed

 Usually, a developer spends substantial amount of time doing mundane tasks like build
and deployment that include:

o Compiling the code

o Packaging the binaries

o Deploying the binaries

o Copying the code from one location to another

 To automate and simplify the above tasks, apache ant is useful.

 It is an Operating System build and deployment tool that can be executed from the
command line.

Features of Apache Ant

 Ant is most complete Java built and deployment tool.

 Ant is platform neutral

 Ant can be used to perform specific tasks.

 Ant scripts are written using plain XML.

 Ant is good at automating complicated repetitive tasks.

 Ant comes with list predefined tasks

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 Ant provides an interface to develop custom tasks

 Ant can be easily invoked from the command line and it can integrate with free and
commercial IDEs like Eclipse, Ant’s Nest and Gel.

Installing Apache Ant

 Ensure that the JAVA_HOME environment variable is set to the folder where your JDK
is installed.

 Download the binaries from http://ant.apache.org

 Unzip the zip file to a convenient location c:\folder. using Winzip, winRAR, 7-zip or
similar tools.

 Create a new environment variable called ANT_HOME that points to the Ant
installation folder, in this case c:\apache-ant-1.8.2-bin folder.

 Append the path to the Apache Ant batch file to the PATH environment variable. In our
case this would be the c:\apache-ant-1.8.2-bin\binfolder

Verifying Ant and Java Installation

 To verify successful installation of Ant and Java, type the following commands though
command prompt

 JAVA

 ANT

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Ant –Build file

 The default Ant’s build file is build.xml

 It should reside in the base directory of the project, but there is no restriction on the file
name or its location.

 All build files require the project element and at least one target element.

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<project name="Hello World Project" default="info">

<target name="info">

<echo>Hello World - Welcome to Apache Ant!</echo>

</target>

Output

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