Using ANT for Java

Ant will work like make wherein we can specify the dependencies of java files and can build the whole application from the command line. build.xml file specifies the ant targets and can be used by issuing ant at the command line. We have to create ant targets for compiling the whole application by compiling each package separately and then including the jar files specified by the project classpath.

Ant tutorials:

• http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2000/jw-1020-ant.html?page=1
• http://supportweb.cs.bham.ac.uk/docs/tutorials/docsystem/build/tutorials/ant/ant.html
• http://www.itpath.com/index.php?topic=user_guide
• http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html
• Sample ant build file : http://www-flare.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/G.Roberts/2007/antbuildfile.html