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<p><strong>Apache Ant</strong></p>
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<h3>Apache Ant 1.5Beta1 Available !</h3>
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Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like
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Make, but without Make's wrinkles.
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Why another build tool when there is already <em>make</em>, <em>gnumake</em>,
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<em>nmake</em>, <em>jam</em>, and
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others? Because all 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, then
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execute commands not unlike what you would issue in 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 have 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, Ant 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 that 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
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<code>`find . -name foo -exec rm {}`</code>, but it
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gives you the ability to be cross platform -- to work anywhere and everywhere.
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And hey, if you really need to execute a shell command, Ant has an
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<code><exec></code> task 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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You can view the documentation for the current 1.5 Beta (Apache Ant 1.5Beta1)
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<a href="manual/index.html">online</a>
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Comprehensive documentation is included in the source and binary distributions.
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You can download the latest release:
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If you wish to use the latest Ant features, you can try downloading a nightly
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build from <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/jakarta/jakarta-ant/nightly/">here</a>
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We are currently hashing out design details for Ant2. Please
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read the latest <a href="antnews.html">Ant news</a> for more details.
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