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Ant is a Java based build tool. In theory it is kind of like make without |
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make's wrinkles. |
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Why another build tool when there is already make, gnumake, nmake, jam, and |
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others? Because all of those tools have limitations that Ant's original author |
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couldn't live with when developing software across multiple platforms. Make-like |
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tools are inherently shell based. They evaluate a set of dependencies and then |
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execute commands not unlike what you would issue on a shell. This means that you |
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can easily extend these tools by using or writing any program for the OS that |
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you are working on. However, this also means that you limit yourself to the OS, |
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or at least the OS type such as Unix, that you are working on. |
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Makefiles are inherently evil as well. Anybody who has worked on them for any |
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time has run into the dreaded tab problem. "Is my command not executing |
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because I have a space in front of my tab!!!" said the original author of |
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Ant way too many times. Tools like Jam took care of this to a great degree, but |
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still use yet another format to use and remember. |
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Ant is different. Instead of a model where it is extended with shell based |
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commands, it is extended using Java classes. Instead of writing shell commands, |
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the configuration files are XML based calling out a target tree where various |
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tasks get executed. Each task is run by an object which implements a particular |
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Task interface. |
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Granted, this removes some of the expressive power that is inherent by being |
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able to construct a shell command such as `find . -name foo -exec rm {}` but it |
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gives you the ability to be cross platform. To work anywhere and everywhere. And |
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hey, if you really need to execute a shell command, Ant has an exec rule that |
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allows different commands to be executed based on the OS that it is executing |
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on. |
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Comprehensive documentation is included in the source and binary distribtions. |
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You can download the latest release: |
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Copyright © 1999-2001, Apache Software Foundation |
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Conor MacNeill