Ant in Action

Chapter 2. A first Ant build

2.1	Defining our first project
2.2	Step zero: creating the project directory
2.3	Step one: verifying the tools are in place
2.4	Step two: writing your first Ant build file
2.5	Step three: running your first build
2.6	Step four: imposing structure
2.7	Step five: running our program
2.8	Ant command-line options
2.9	Examining the final build file
2.10	Running the build under an IDE
2.11	Summary

Let’s start this gentle introduction to Ant with a demonstration of what it can do. The first chapter described how Ant views a project: a project contains targets, each of which is a set of actions—tasks—that perform part of the build. Targets can depend on other targets, all of which are declared in an XML file, ...