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Using Ant to automate tasks

To support using Apache Ant with Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications running on the application server, the product provides a copy of the Ant tool and a set of Ant tasks that extend the capabilities of Ant to include product-specific functions. Ant has become a very popular tool among Java programmers.

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Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is similar to Make, but Ant is different. Instead of a model in which it is extended with shell-based commands, Ant is extended using Java classes. Instead of writing shell commands, XML-based configuration files are used. These files reference a target tree in which various tasks are run. Each task is run by an object that implements a particular Task interface.
By combining the following tasks with those provided by Ant, you can create build scripts that compile, package, install, and test your application on the application server:
  • Install and uninstall applications
  • Start and stop servers in a base configuration
  • Run administrative scripts or commands
  • Run the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) deployment tool
  • Run the JavaServer Pages (JSP) file precompilation tool

For more detailed information about Ant, refer to the Apache organization Web site.

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