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-                                 A     N     T

- 

-

-  What is it? 

-  -----------

-  

-  Ant is a Java based build tool. In theory it is kind of like "make" 

-  without makes wrinkles and with the full portability of pure java code.

-

-  

-  Why?

-  ----

-  

-  Why another build tool when there is already make, gnumake, nmake, jam, 

-  and others? Because all of those tools have limitations that its original 

-  author couldn't live with when developing software across multiple platforms. 

-  

-  Make-like tools are inherently shell based. They evaluate a set of 

-  dependencies and then execute commands not unlike what you would issue on a 

-  shell. This means that you can easily extend these tools by using or writing 

-  any program for the OS that you are working on. However, this also means that 

-  you limit yourself to the OS, or at least the OS type such as Unix, that you 

-  are working on.

-  

-  Makefiles are inherently evil as well. Anybody who has worked on them for any 

-  time has run into the dreaded tab problem. "Is my command not executing 

-  because I have a space in front of my tab!!!" said the original author of Ant 

-  way too many times. Tools like Jam took care of this to a great degree, but 

-  still use yet another format to use and remember.

-  

-  Ant is different. Instead a model where it is extended with shell based 

-  commands, it is extended using Java classes. Instead of writing shell 

-  commands, the configuration files are XML based calling out a target tree 

-  where various tasks get executed. Each task is run by an object which 

-  implements a particular Task interface.

-  

-  Granted, this removes some of the expressive power that is inherent by being 

-  able to construct a shell command such as `find . -name foo -exec rm {}` but 

-  it gives you the ability to be cross platform. To work anywhere and 

-  everywhere. And hey, if you really need to execute a shell command, Ant has 

-  an exec rule that allows different commands to be executed based on the OS 

-  that it is executing on.

-

-  The Latest Version

-  ------------------

-

-  Details of the latest version can be found on the Apache Jakarta

-  Project web site <http://jakarta.apache.org/>.

-

-

-  Documentation

-  -------------

-

-  Documentation is available in HTML format, in the docs/ directory.

-  For information about building and installing Ant, see

-  docs/manual/index.html

-

-

-  Licensing

-  ---------

-

-  This software is licensed under the terms you may find in the file 

-  named "LICENSE" in this directory.

-  

-

-  Thanks for using Ant.

-

-                                          The Apache Jakarta Project

-                                         <http://jakarta.apache.org/>