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ANT
Ant
is a Java based build tool, similar to make,
but with better support for the cross platform
issues involved with developing Java applications.
Ant is the build tool of choice for all Java
projects at Apache and many other Open Source
Java projects. Ant can be configured to compile
your java source code files, build your deployment
JAR and WAR files, unit-test code and create
projects javadoc documentation.
Ant
1.6.0 adds a lot of new features, most prominently
support for XML namespaces as well as a new
concept of Ant libraries that makes use of namespaces
to avoid name clashes of custom tasks.
Advantages
of Ant
- Build
IN Java, USING Java, and FOR Java
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Supports Java Tools (javac, javadoc,
etc.)
- XML
Build File is Easier to Build, Read,
and Maintain than MAKE file
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Easier to Extend
- Supports
Cross Platform Java Development
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Ant is much faster than using MAKE ?
Each command is a new process
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Ant runs within the JVM
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Each command is executed from within
JVM
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Tools like javac are new threads – not
new process
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Compiling large number of java source
files is MUCH,MUCH faster with Ant
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Ant's Debug Options are very helpful
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XML much easier to read than MAKEFILE
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User does not need to know all command
line interface options to tools that
can be called programmatically
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Even OS-Specific commands can be setup
in 'TaskDefs' and/or included from other
sources
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