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| <p>Apache Ant 1.6.1beta1 is now available for <a href="http://cvs.apache.org/dist/ant/v1.6.1beta1/">download</a>.</p> |
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| Ant 1.6.0 |
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| <p>Apache Ant 1.6.0 is available since December 18, 2003 for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>. As |
| we've already said in the announcements of Ant 1.5.4, this release |
| requires JDK 1.2 or later to run.</p> |
| <p>Ant 1.6.0 adds a lot of new features, most prominently support |
| for XML namespaces as well as a new concept of Ant libraries that |
| makes use of namespaces to avoid name clashes of custom tasks. |
| For a longer list of fixed bugs and new features see the release |
| notes.</p> |
| <p>If you find anything that hasn't been covered in the manual (I bet you |
| did) or could be explained better, feel free to help us out in the |
| <a href="http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?NewAntFeaturesInDetail">Wiki </a>.</p> |
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| Apache Ant |
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| Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like |
| Make, but without Make's wrinkles. |
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| Why another build tool when there is already <em>make</em>, <em>gnumake</em>, |
| <em>nmake</em>, <em>jam</em>, and |
| others? Because all those tools have limitations that Ant's original author |
| couldn't live with when developing software across multiple platforms. Make-like |
| tools are inherently shell-based -- they evaluate a set of dependencies, then |
| execute commands not unlike what you would issue in a shell. This means that you |
| can easily extend these tools by using or writing any program for the OS that |
| you are working on. However, this also means that you limit yourself to the OS, |
| or at least the OS type such as Unix, that you are working on. |
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| Makefiles are inherently evil as well. Anybody who has worked on them for any |
| time has run into the dreaded tab problem. "Is my command not executing |
| because I have a space in front of my tab!!!" said the original author of |
| Ant way too many times. Tools like Jam took care of this to a great degree, but |
| still have yet another format to use and remember. |
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| Ant is different. Instead of a model where it is extended with shell-based |
| commands, Ant is extended using Java classes. Instead of writing shell commands, |
| the configuration files are XML-based, calling out a target tree where various |
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| Granted, this removes some of the expressive power that is inherent by being |
| able to construct a shell command such as |
| <code>`find . -name foo -exec rm {}`</code>, but it |
| gives you the ability to be cross platform -- to work anywhere and everywhere. |
| And hey, if you really need to execute a shell command, Ant has an |
| <code><exec></code> task that |
| allows different commands to be executed based on the OS that it is executing |
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| You can view the documentation for the current release (Apache Ant 1.5.4) |
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| Comprehensive documentation is included in the source and binary distributions. |
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| Nightly Builds |
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| If you wish to use the latest Ant features, you can try downloading a nightly |
| build from <a href="http://cvs.apache.org/builds/ant/nightly/">here</a> |
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