At Ant's website

Starting with the release of Ant 1.4 the Ant's FAQ is bundled with the distribution, the most recent version can always be found at the website. FAQ: http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/faq.html

jGuru

jGuru hosts an interactive Ant discussion forum and FAQ system Forum: http://www.jguru.com/forums/home.jsp?topic=Ant FAQ: http://www.jguru.com/faq/home.jsp?topic=Ant

Listed by descending publication date.

Java Development with Ant

Covers Ant 1.5, including: The new Ant 1.5 features Ant's datatypes and property handling JUnit testing and reporting Continuous integration techniques XDoclet for attribute-oriented programming EJB generation, building, and packaging Writing and testing native code Building Web Services with Apache Axis Deploying your system to multiple remote servers Using and writing Loggers Listeners Selectors Custom tasks Authors: Erik Hatcher and Steve Loughran URL: http://www.manning.com/antbook/

Ant: The Definitive Guide

Covers Ant release 1.4.1. Authors: Jesse E. Tilly and Eric M. Burke URL: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/anttdg/

Ant. Kurz und Gut.

A German language short reference for Ant that covers Ant 1.4. This is the original description: Ant kurz & gut enth�lt eine vollst�ndige Referenz der Built-in Tasks und ihrer jeweiligen Attribute sowie kurze Beispiele f�r ihre Verwendung. Daneben bietet das Buch eine knappe Einf�hrung in die Arbeit mit Ant und eine Erl�uterung der Ant-Basiselemente (Projekte, Properties, Targets und Tasks). Behandelt werden au�erdem grundlegende Konzepte wie Filesets, Patternsets und Pfadstrukturen, das Schreiben eigener Tasks, die Aufruf-Syntax und Optional Tasks. Author: Stefan Edlich URL: http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3897212412/

Java Tools for eXtreme Programming

This book covers the following XP subjects: Automated unit and functional testing Continuous integration through build and deployment automation The value of refactoring and continuous integration How Ant, JUnit, JUnitPerf, Cactus, HTTPUnit, and JMeter can be used to achieve the goals of the XP methodology Authors: Richard Hightower and Nicholas Lesiecki URL: http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,047120708X,00.html

The following sections list articles and presentations written about Apache Ant. If you've written something that should be included, please post it to one of the mailing lists.

Ant in Anger: Using Ant in a Production Development System

This document describes strategies and some basic examples of how to use Ant in larger team development projects. Author: Steve Loughran URL: http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/ant_in_anger.html

Ant Task Guidelines

This document describes how to write custom Ant tasks, and how to submit them to potentially be included in Ant. Author: Steve Loughran URL: http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/ant_task_guidelines.html

Automating the build and test process

This article demonstrates an approach to the automated build and test process. Working with Ant 1.3 and the JUnit test framework, it shows how to automate a process that captures pertinent information about each test suite run, generates an attractive report, and e-mails the report. Author: Erik Hatcher URL: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-junitmail/

Incremental development with Ant and JUnit

This article explores the benefits of unit testing with Ant and JUnit, detailing how to develop automated unit tests and integrate them into your build process. Author: Malcolm Davis URL: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-ant/?dwzone=java

Automate your build process using Java and Ant

This article provides an introduction to using Ant with some basic examples and by highlighting some of the important tasks. Author: Michael Cymerman URL: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2000/jw-1020-ant.html

Short tutorial in Cactus' (formerly J2EEUnit) documentation

There is a short tutorial on how to use Ant in Cactus' documentation. It has a slant towards build files that will be used with Cactus. Author: Cactus development team URL: http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/howto_ant_primer.html

Developing custom Ant tasks with VisualAge for Java

This article outlines how to integrate Ant into VisualAge for Java, and how to write and debug custom tasks using the IDE and the integrated debugger. Author: Glenn McAllister URL: http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/data/document2366?OpenDocument&p=1&BCT=1&Footer=1

Automated builds with VisualAge for Java and Ant

This article shows how you can perform command line builds with a VisualAge for Java repository. Author: Glenn McAllister URL: http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/Data/Document4366?OpenDocument&p=1&BCT=3&Footer=1

Ant: A Build Tool from the Jakarta Project

This article is from the "Best Practices" section of Sun's Dot-Com Builder Site. Author: Laura Geele Wang URL: http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp

Making a Mountain Out of an Anthill

This article is from the June 2001 issue of the Java Developer' Journal. You need to be a registered JDJ subscriber to view this article. Author: Neal Ford URL: http://www.sys-con.com/java/archivesa.cfm?volume=06&issue=06

Using Ant and Weblogic EJBs

This article describes how to use Ant to create Weblogic EJBs, and some workarounds for issues you may encounter. Author: Jesse E. Tilly URL: http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/06/25/antejb.html

An Introduction to Ant

This article is a short introduction into the basic concepts of Ant. Author: Jayakrishnan Nair URL: http://varnam.org/articles/ant.html

Using JavaScript with Ant

A tutorial about using JavaScript and XSLT with Ant. Author: Dylan Schiemann URL: http://www.sitepen.com/ant/javascript.html

Building with Ant

Series of articles that describe a framework for web application development based on Ant and JUnit. Author: Alex Chaffee URL: Introduction: http://softwaredev.earthweb.com/sdtech/article/0,,12065_989631,00.html Directory Structure: http://softwaredev.earthweb.com/sdtech/article/0,,12082_994991,00.html Deployment and Distribution: http://softwaredev.earthweb.com/sdtech/article/0,,12077_998241,00.html

Developing with JAXB and Ant

Series of articles that shows how to use Ant together with the Java API for XML Binding (JAXB). Author: Joseph Shelby URL: http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/03/06/jaxant1.html http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/03/13/jaxbant2.html

Ant - presented to the Tucson Java Users Group

A PowerPoint technical overview presentation on Ant. Comes complete with a straightforward example demonstrating code compilation, JAR'ing, JUnit testing, JUnit reporting, and Zipping a distribution. A few advanced topics are touched upon like property immutabality and using <antcall> to get around it, build listeners, and writing custom tasks. Author: Erik Hatcher URL: http://erik.hatcher.net/ant-jug.zip

Ant Build Tool

A PowerPoint presentation on Ant 1.2. It provides a basic overview of Ant's capabilities. Author: Patrick Chanezon URL: http://people.netscape.com/chanezon/tech/ant/ant_preso.ppt

Ant

A detailed Ant 1.3 PowerPoint presentation, made at the St. Louis Java Users Group meeting in March 2001. Includes a detailed build file and basic descriptions of all the built in and optional tasks. Updated for Ant 1.4 in October 2001. Available in PDF format now. Author: Mark Volkmann URL: http://www.ociweb.com/jnb/files/Ant.pdf

Modern Development Crises

This presentation is an overview of the current state of software development today. There are a couple of slides that briefly cover Ant. Author: Steve Loughran URL: http://www.iseran.com/Steve/modern_development_processes.html

When Web Services Go Bad

A presentation from the Web Services DevCon in March 2002. Author: Steve Loughran URL: http://www.iseran.com/Steve/papers/when_web_services_go_bad.html