(Beware, this can be a double-edged sword at times!) There isn’t much magic that is happening under the hood.
The beauty of Apache ANT is that it only does what it is told to do. It is old (Maven is winning this space and Gradle is getting along), quite popular and can still be found in most of the projects.
By the end of this post, you should be able to handle any ANT project in general.Īnother Neat Tool provided by The Apache Software Foundation is a build tool written in Java. Today, let us ponder about what exactly this Apache ANT is and why it takes its place as an important building block in the construction of a WebDriver framework.
Agreed that it sounds weird, but don’t fear as I am here! (Now, that’s what I call, rhyming.) If you are already familiar with XML, you can learn Ant pretty quickly.Īnt is good at automating complicated repetitive tasks.Īnt comes with a big list of predefined tasks.Īnt provides an interface to develop custom tasks.Īnt can be easily invoked from the command line and it can integrate with free and commercial IDEs.Hiya folks! Do you have ANTs in your build? Just kidding! Actually, I am not. The latest version of Apache Ant as on May 2014 is 1.9.4.Īnt is the most complete Java build and deployment tool available.Īnt is platform neutral and can handle platform specific properties such as file separators.Īnt can be used to perform platform specific tasks such as modifying the modified time of a file using 'touch' command.Īnt scripts are written using plain XML. It was originally used to build Tomcat, and was bundled as a part of Tomcat distribution.Īnt was born out of the problems and complexities associated with the Apache Make tool.Īnt was promoted as an independent project in Apache in the year 2000. It is an Operating System build and deployment tool that can be executed from the command line.Īnt was created by James Duncan Davidson (the original author of Tomcat). To automate and simplify the above tasks, Apache Ant is useful. On an average, a developer spends a substantial amount of time doing mundane tasks like build and deployment that include:ĭeploying the binaries to the test serverĬopying the code from one location to another Before going into the details of Apache Ant, let us first understand why we need a build tool in the first place. It is a Java-based build tool from Apache.
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