Why you should learn Ant

February 25, 2007 · 1 Comment

Ant is a build / automation tool that can do a lot more than just copy files around. Derek Perez has just discovered ant and is already in love with it! His blog entry talks about using ant inside Eclipse (ant is pre-packaged with Eclipse) to automatically compile CFML to Java bytecode and create numbered "builds" for deployment to other servers. You can even download his build.xml script. If you haven't discovered the joys of ant yet, you should read his blog entry and realize how much easier ant can make your life.

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1 Rob Wilkerson // Feb 27, 2007 at 10:51 AM

There are also a lot of third party tasks that extend the power greatly. SvnAnt is one, but my favorite is AntelopeTasks. Having the power of grep and other day-to-day string functions in an ant task is truly useful.

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