# Apache Myrmidon - Introduction

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Myrmidon

- Introduction
- Get Involved
- Building Myrmidon
- Todo List

User Guide

- Build file
- Virtual File System
- Ant1 Compatibility Layer
- Differences to Ant1

Extending Ant

- Task Writers HOWTO
- ClassLoader HOWTO
- Library HOWTO

Container Design

What is Myrmidon?

> Myrmidon is one of the Ant 2 proposals currently in development. You can read more about the goals of Ant 2 here.

> Myrmidon is a general-purpose task engine. It contains the basic building blocks for assembling any sort of task-based tool. Ant 2 is an example of such a tool, which could be assembled using the Myrmidon task engine, and a library of build related tasks.

> Currently, Myrmidon is a prototype of what a task engine might look. It includes a small set of tasks and data types. We are currently porting many of the Ant 1.x tasks to the Myrmidon task engine.

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