Once you have mastered the Ant concepts, how to write Ant scripts (XML files) and how to make use of the power of Ant, you will be left wondering how you managed all those tasks before Ant came along! In fact, I use Ant for a variety of tasks, over and above the software development related tasks that it is meant for. So what you say? Well, Ant is a tool that makes it possible to do routine stuff in a easy, repeatable, & robust way. Lets talk about Ant…įirst of all, what is Ant? As the Ant developers say – Ant is a Java-based build tool. I was a part of the ant-user & ant-dev mailing lists at that time and I had voted for the logo that won!!!Īnyway, enough nostalgia. See the post by Christoph Wilhelms about the vote.

And the love endures till this day I remember voting for the official Ant logo in August/September 2001. I have used Ant since the 1.1.x days and I must say that I fell in love with Ant the day I first downloaded and played with it.

Apache Ant is currently in version 1.6.5 (released on June 2, 2005).

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