A utility created by the makes of 'tomcat' - also part of the Jakarta project. Can be used to help you compile and build an application. Avalailable from Apache's ant site
Apache Open Source Java based build tool. Used in the build and postinstall scripts for Java services.
A Java-based build tool that can be extended using Java classes. The configuration files are XML-based, calling out a target tree where various tasks are executed.
Ant is a software tool for automating software build processes.
An open source Java-based build tool from the Apache Software Foundation.
Ant is a make-like utility. We endorse the use of Ant because it supports platform independence and it is easy to use. In this tutorial we introduce Ant in the Trail02_GettingStarted trail. We go into more detail in Trail05_Developing Components. We provide several Ant examples in our demo applications and we provide an Ant template to use should you want help in making your own Ant build file.
A utility for managing Java builds, probably the most widely used in the world. See ant.apache.org.