What’s an Ant script? Do I need bug spray?
Ant is a scripting tool commonly used to build, compile and deploy projects. This is in no way an all encompassing inventory of what Ant can do. It is extensible and its instructions are expressed in an xml format whose nodes comprise a framework of abilities designed to make menial tasks automated.
From a developer’s perspective, the most basic Ant tasks are the compile, package and copy tasks. All java projects must do these three things many, many, many times during a development cycle. Its very boring and tedious if you…
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