Ant

Apache Ant is the de facto standard Java build tool. It was originally created by James Duncan Davidson and is now integrated into all JavaIDEs.

An external Wiki for Ant is here: http://wiki.apache.org/ant/

Tasks

• Core tasks
• Optional tasks
• EAR Expander Task
• Executing Tomcat Manager Commands With Ant
• Websphere 5.1 Ant tasks
• Websphere 6.0 Ant tasks
• BEA Weblogic Ant tasks: <wlserver>, <wlconfig>, <wldeploy>
• Ant-Contrib Tasks

Articles

• Automation for the people
• Using Antlibs
• Automate your build process using Java and Ant
• Java Software Automation with Jakarta Ant
• Developing for the Web with Ant
• Automating your builds with Ant
• Ant and XML build files
• Building and Deploying Applications with Ant
• Flexible User and Environment Ant Configuration
• Using Ant with Websphere Studio
• Websphere Studio: working with Ant
• Performing unattended daily builds with WebSphere Studio and Ant part 1, part 2, part 3
• Extending Ant to support interactive builds (Nov 2001)
• Incremental development with Ant and JUnit (Nov 2000)
• Writing Ant tasks
• Top 15 Ant Best Practices
• Savant
• Continuous Integration (Martin Fowler)

Books

• Ant in Action (the successor to Java Development with Ant)
• Java Development with Ant
• Ant: the definitive guide
• Pragmatic Project Automation

Build Management Tools

• CruiseControl
• AntHill
• LuntBuild
• Hudson
• Bamboo

Build Management Tools are helpful in doing automated Apache Ant builds

See also

• http://ant.netbeans.org/
• ApacheMaven
• Poll: How do you build your Java apps?
• http://nant.sourceforge.net/

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