ANT stands for Another Neat Tool and is a Java based build tool from Apache Software Foundation. Apache Ant's build files are written in XML and they take advantage of being open standard, portable and easy to understand.
As a developer, we compile the code, package the binaries, deploy those binaries to the test server, test the changes and sometimes copy the code from one location to another. We can automate these tasks in a simplier way by using Apache Ant.
As a developer, we compile the code, package the binaries, deploy those binaries to the test server, test the changes and sometimes copy the code from one location to another. We can automate these tasks in a simplier way by using Apache Ant.