There is an on-line FAQ for Ant at jakarta.apache.org. This FAQ is interactive, which means you can ask and answer questions on line.
One of the questions popping up quite often is "Is there a DTD for buildfiles?" Please refer to the FAQ for an answer.
There is a powerpoint presentation by Patrick Chanezon (chanezon@netscape.com) here: http://people.netscape.com/chanezon/tech/ant/ant_preso.ppt
Another ppt pres by Steve Loughran (steve_l@iseran.com) http://www.iseran.com/stuff/Modern_Development_Crises.ppt
and some articles to get ideas from here: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-ant/?dwzone=java http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2000/jw-1020-ant.html http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/cactus/ant.html
Here's another Ant presentation, made at the St. Louis Java Users Group meeting in March (PowerPoint): http://www.ociweb.com/javasig/knowledgebase/March2001/index.html
An article about developing tasks with VAJ by Glenn McAllister can be found at http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/data/document2366?OpenDocument&p=1&BCT=1&Footer=1
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