How to Create Jar Files from Ant

submited by krishnas on Thu Mar 27th, 2008

Lets take this time in consideration a real life project. Most of the time Ant is used to compile and build java projects. This means generating, compiling and building jar files. For this we are going to define severals tasks. Lets consider the we create a buid.xml file in the directory where sources are located. The sources are put in the subdirectory called src. We also need to include a jar in the classpath while compiling. We are going to create a separate property file to define the location of this file:

Topic: java