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Make Ant easy with Eclipse

Write, build, and debug code in the Ant editor easily

Prashant Deva, Founder, Placid Systems
Prashant Deva is the founder of Placid Systems and the author of the ANTLR Studio plug-in for Eclipse. He also provides consulting related to ANTLR and Eclipse plug-in development. He has written several articles related to ANTLR and Eclipse plug-ins, and he frequently contributes ideas and bug reports to Eclipse development teams. He is currently busy creating the next great developer tool.

Summary:  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.

Date:  18 Apr 2006
Level:  Introductory
PDF:  A4 and Letter (558 KB | 17 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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This content is part of a progressive knowledge path for advancing your skills. See Open source development with Eclipse: Master the basics

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.

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Prerequisites

This tutorial assumes a basic knowledge of creating Ant scripts and working with the Eclipse platform.

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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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