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Apache Ant Tutorial

Here Apache Ant Tutorial provides installing ant, setup build file and Example. Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. Apache Ant’s build files are written in XML and they take advantage of being open standard, portable and easy to understand.

In this tutorial we are going to show you how to use Apache ANT to automate the build and deployment process in simple and easy steps.

Ant Tutorials

Introduction to Ant
What is ANT and talked about some history about ANT and it’s versions.
Installing & Configure Ant
How to install Apache Ant to different platform, setup environment variables and configure.
Ant Build file in Java Project
Creating Ant build file and discussing terms about this file. How to useful this file for a project deployment process.
Creating targets and their dependencies
How to configure target and what is use of it and also creating dependencies between them.
Using Property files and Task
Using properties file to simplify configuration and also used here property task for creating ant build file.
Create Jar file using Ant
Here we will see how to create Jar file using Ant build file and what is configuration required for it. And also including external Jars for making single deployment jar file.
Create War file using Ant
Here we will see how to create WAR file for web application in Spring MVC.
Build Documentation using Ant
We are creating documentation for a project by using Ant build.
Ant Eclipse Integration
Integrating Apache Ant with Eclipse too simplify the use of ant build file and run.
Ant Junit Integration and Generate jUnit Report
Integrating JUnit for unit testing of application.
Developing Application with Ant
Here we will full application using Apache Ant.

This tutorial help to developer to learn the building application with Apache ANT to automate the build and deployment process. It is assumed that the readers have prior knowledge of basic software development using java or any other programming language.

Happy Build Tool Ant learning!!! 🙂

Dinesh Rajput

Dinesh Rajput is the chief editor of a website Dineshonjava, a technical blog dedicated to the Spring and Java technologies. It has a series of articles related to Java technologies. Dinesh has been a Spring enthusiast since 2008 and is a Pivotal Certified Spring Professional, an author of a book Spring 5 Design Pattern, and a blogger. He has more than 10 years of experience with different aspects of Spring and Java design and development. His core expertise lies in the latest version of Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Security, creating REST APIs, Microservice Architecture, Reactive Pattern, Spring AOP, Design Patterns, Struts, Hibernate, Web Services, Spring Batch, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Web Application Design and Architecture. He is currently working as a technology manager at a leading product and web development company. He worked as a developer and tech lead at the Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd and was the first developer in his previous company, Paytm. Dinesh is passionate about the latest Java technologies and loves to write technical blogs related to it. He is a very active member of the Java and Spring community on different forums. When it comes to the Spring Framework and Java, Dinesh tops the list!