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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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Resources

Learn

Keep the Apache Ant 1.7.0 Manual by your side.
"Automate your build process using Java and Ant," by Michael Cymerman, is nice introduction to Ant.
The Ant online documentation titled "Writing Your Own Task" explains the basics of developing custom tasks for Ant.
Read the Ant support in the Eclipse documentation for Ant-related functionality within Eclipse.
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Discuss Ant at the Ant mailing list.
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