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+Ant is a Java based build tool. In theory it is kind of like make without +make's wrinkles. +

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+Why another build tool when there is already make, gnumake, nmake, jam, and +others? Because all of those tools have limitations that Ant's original author +couldn't live with when developing software across multiple platforms. Make-like +tools are inherently shell based. They evaluate a set of dependencies and then +execute commands not unlike what you would issue on a shell. This means that you +can easily extend these tools by using or writing any program for the OS that +you are working on. However, this also means that you limit yourself to the OS, +or at least the OS type such as Unix, that you are working on. +

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+Ant is different. Instead of a model where it is extended with shell based +commands, it is extended using Java classes. Instead of writing shell commands, +the configuration files are XML based calling out a target tree where various +tasks get executed. Each task is run by an object which implements a particular +Task interface. +

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+Granted, this removes some of the expressive power that is inherent by being +able to construct a shell command such as `find . -name foo -exec rm {}` but it +gives you the ability to be cross platform. To work anywhere and everywhere. And +hey, if you really need to execute a shell command, Ant has an exec rule that +allows different commands to be executed based on the OS that it is executing +on. +

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