This is the fifth part of the so called Ant series I have been writing in this blog, about Apache Ant. This post is mainly about building and running a Java Swing program using Ant. The previous posts on Ant can be found here: 1. Apache Ant2. Ant: Installation3. Ant: Hello World in Ant4. Ant: [...]

This is the third part of the so called Ant series I have been writing in this blog, about Apache Ant. This post is mainly about building and running a Java program using Ant. In the example I’m using here, its a Hello World program in simple Java, but most of these basic Ant steps [...]

As I have worked on Ant before sometime for a project and I had few of my own documents for reference, related to installing and using Apache Ant. I thought of sharing those via this blog as it might be useful to someone out there, or at-least would be a backup of my doc in [...]

This is a simple reference of my, which might be helpful to someone after installing Ant and do some playing. Use a text editor to create a file called build.xml: <?xml version="1.0"?><project name="My Project" default="hello"> <target name="hello"> <echo>Hello World!</echo> </target> </project> The first line in the file tells the system that this is an XML [...]

What is Apache Ant? Apache Ant (or simply Ant) is an XML-based build scripting language used heavily by the Open Source community. This is specially handy when it come is to automating the build process. Also Ant is infamous for its good going with Java projects, though it is very much capable of doing various [...]