Apache Ant 1.9.13 and 1.10.5 Apache Ant 1.9.13 and 1.10.5 Released Apache Ant 1.9.13 and 1.10.5 are now available for download as source or binary from. Software development projects looking for a solution combining build tool and dependency management can use Ant in combination with. Ant is extremely flexible and does not impose coding conventions or directory layouts to the Java projects which adopt it as a build tool. Users of Ant can develop their own 'antlibs' containing Ant tasks and types, and are offered a large number of ready-made commercial or open-source 'antlibs'. More generally, Ant can be used to pilot any type of process which can be described in terms of targets and tasks.Īnt is written in Java. Ant can also be used effectively to build non Java applications, for instance C or C applications. Ant supplies a number of built-in tasks allowing to compile, assemble, test and run Java applications. The main known usage of Ant is the build of Java applications. Welcome Apache Ant™ Apache Ant is a Java library and command-line tool whose mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other.

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