How to Write Ant Scripts?

Question

Hi Experts,

Can anyone tell me how to write Ant script (if i want to create my own) mean is there any kind of tutorial available?

Eclipse/Netbeans provide Ant script automatically but can it be possible to edit and customize them as per requirement? If yes then how to do this and how to customize the workspace which is provided by IDE.

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,
Which version of Eclipse are you using? Like Netbeans Eclipse also has the feature of automated build and deploy. You need not write any Ant script. Check if you are using Eclipse for Java EE developer and Web Tools Platform.
Regards,
Abdel Olakara

Answer 2

A few pointers:

• Window > Preferences > Server - configure target server runtimes
• right-click project > Properties > Java Build Path - lets you add additional jars and libraries. Eclipse offers you a pre-configured library for web development
• As Abdel said, get the Web Tools Platform (WTP) plugin
• Window > Show View > Servers - opens the servers panel, where you can start/stop a server and manage deployed applications.

Answer 3

There is plenty of documentation on the apache ant website, google is also your friend.