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This article explains in brief about two features of ANT which are used to monitor the build process: Listeners and Loggers. In the previous articles on ANT we saw that ANT has logging feature(logging using external log4j). If the logger is not specified then ANT uses the DefaultLogger. Along with logger, Ant also has a [...]

This article guides you through java programming with Apache Ant with the steps listed as below. The following are the steps used in the articles to explain the Ant script creation. If you have any questions, please write it in the comments section. If you are interested in receiving the future articles on Java, please [...]

This article discusses on how to execute a batch file or shell script using Ant.The article details about using exec command with an example code.We will write an Ant build script, which identifies the current operating system(OS) and based on the OS detected either a batch file or a shell script is executed.We assume that [...]

Eclipse and ANT Build Tool Error You would have come across this compiler error (error starting modern compiler) in many times during the developement. This error occirs when the actual Java runtime loaded by the environment and another tool is pointing to the differenet Java run time. This tips explains with example if this error [...]

Apache Ant Example This article explains how to write a very basic ANT build script. This does not explain indepth knowledge on building your project using ANT script. But, this writeup will be more useful for the beginners who haben’t writen any ANT script before. Before start writing the script, lets look into how to [...]