Ant Basic
Ant Basic Ant (originally an acronym for Another Neat Tool), is a build tool with special support for the Java programming language but can be used for just about everything. Ant is platform-independent; it is written purely in Java. Ant is particularly good at automating complicated repetitive tasks and thus is well suited for automating Ant Installation Configuration for Windows Environment 1. Download latest binary zip from http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/. 2. Unzip Binary in any folder, in my end it unzip on c:\ E.g. C:\apache-ant-1.7.0 3. Setting Environment variable: Right Click on My Computer ->Properties->Advanced tab->Environment variable->Create User variable Variable Value ANT_HOME C:\apache-ant-1.7.0 Path %JAVA_HOME%\bin; %ANT_HOME%\bin; %ANT_HOME%\lib; 4. on command-line type c:\ant to verify proper configuration Working with Ant For typical Java Project building By Ant script 1. To create test project here is common folder and file