Level: Intermediate Prashant Deva (pdeva@placidsystems.com), Founder, Placid Systems
18 Apr 2006 Eclipse can make working with Apache Ant easier. Discover the Ant integration features in the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE), and learn how to write, build, and debug code in Eclipse through the Ant editor.
In this tutorial
Apache Ant is considered the Holy Grail of build tools in the Java™ development world. Most Java projects worth their salt have some sort of custom build process attached to them in the form of an Ant build script. Therefore, every worthwhile Java IDE must have some sort of support built in for Ant. Eclipse, a favorite IDE, doesn't disappoint: It provides extensive built-in support for Ant. Learn how to make use of the features present in Eclipse to write and debug Ant files, and also how to use Ant files as builders.
Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes a basic knowledge of creating Ant scripts and working with the Eclipse platform.
System requirements
To try the examples, you need the Eclipse SDK from Eclipse.org running on Java Virtual Machine (JVM) V1.4 or later. Download Java technology from Sun Microsystems or from IBM.
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