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Ant (“Another Neat Tool”) is a Java-based build tool which uses a combination of Java and XML to create platform-independent build and deploy scripts. Being written in Java, it has the advantage over some other build tools of working on any platform. It is open source and is available free from the Apache Software Foundation (http://ant.apache.org/). It uses an XML build file (called “build.xml” by default) containing targets and tasks. Ant is used in many Java projects and can be invoked directly from many other tools, including Eclipse. The Apache Ant project has spawned subprojects such as Ivy (a dependency manager). There are other similar tools around, such as Maven, but Ant is ideal for relatively simple builds.
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Parsons, D. (2012). Automatic Building and Testing with Ant. In: Foundational Java. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2479-5_14
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