Hello Manas, Ant is mainly used to automate processes related to developing java software - so things like compiling, testing, deploying, etc. Think about all of the things you do that do related to "development" (i.e. not meetings - ant can't go to meetings for you yet) but don't involve typing java code in your IDE. Some of these things are multi-step processes that are tedious and error prone (the perfect example being deploying your code to an application server: all that mindless clicking!). Ant can be used to automate many of these things.
Look at the example build file in the outstanding ant docco (Using Ant -> Writing a Simple Buildfile -> Example Buildfile) to see a really simple example. /t >-----Original Message----- >From: Manas_Das [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 2:40 PM >To: Ant Users List >Subject: regarding Ant > >Dear all, > I got the idea that ant should be used whenever we want to >automate some processes and more over it is a building tool in which we >can specify several tasks but still I am getting confused with ant >.could someone explain me about ant I mean what are the scenarios in >which we should apply ant with some examples. Please someone explain me >. > >Thanks and regards >Manas Ranjan Das --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
