Java developers realized that by leveraging the Java platform, they could create a more powerful build tool, one specifically designed for Java programmers. The result is Ant.

Ant is a powerful scripting tool that lets you craft build processes around your code requirements using predefined tasks and provides expansion capability to handle even more difficult tasks ...

What is the best Java build tool on the market? Is it Gradle? Do people still use Ant? Here, we explore why Maven is still one of the industry's most popular Java build tools.

Ant, from the Jakarta Apache Project, is a platform independent Java-based build tool. Ant started off as an internal component of Tomcat, the servlet container that is used in the reference ...

Hey Guys We're planning on upgrading our SDK from Java5 to Java6 but we still want to do builds for both on the same box. We currently use ANT 1.7.1 and use the built in JAVAC task (We also use ...