SE452: Ant: What is it? [1/8]

Ant

Ant stands for Another Neat Tool

Basically, Ant is a Java based build tool. It uses Java to build Java code for you. It also happens to have a number of interesting features that make life for the Java developer a lot easier.

Ant has been described as make without make's wrinkles.

Ant was written originally to build Tomcat, and the code was quickly re-used by other projects, and Ant was turned into its own project. Ant is now a top level apache project, it is not under the jakarta group of projects.