This page lists articles and presentations written about Ant. If you've written something that should be included, please post it to one of the mailing lists.

Ant in Anger: Using Ant in a Production Development System

This document describes strategies and some basic examples of how to use Ant in larger team development projects. Author: Steve Loughran URL: http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/~checkout~/jakarta-ant/docs/ant_in_anger.html?content-type=text/html

Ant Task Guidelines

This document describes how to write custom Ant tasks, and how to submit them to potentially be included in Ant. Author: Steve Loughran URL: http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/~checkout~/jakarta-ant/docs/ant_task_guidelines.html?content-type=text/html

Incremental development with Ant and JUnit

This article explores the benefits of unit testing with Ant and JUnit, detailing how to develop automated unit tests and integrate them into your build process. Author: Malcolm Davis URL: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-ant/?dwzone=java

Automate your build process using Java and Ant

This article provides an introduction to using Ant with some basic examples and by highlighting some of the important tasks. Author: Michael Cymerman URL: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2000/jw-1020-ant.html

Short tutorial in Cactus' (formerly J2EEUnit) documentation

There is a short tutorial on how to use Ant in Cactus' documentation. It has a slant towards build files that will be used with Cactus. Author: Cactus development team URL: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/cactus/ant.html

Developing custom Ant tasks with VisualAge for Java

This article outlines how to integrate Ant into VisualAge for Java, and how to write and debug custom tasks using the IDE and the integrated debugger. Author: Glenn McAllister URL: http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/data/document2366?OpenDocument&p=1&BCT=1&Footer=1

Automated builds with VisualAge for Java and Ant

This article shows how you can perform command line builds with a VisualAge for Java repository. Author: Glenn McAllister URL: http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/Data/Document4366?OpenDocument&p=1&BCT=3&Footer=1

Ant: A Build Tool from the Jakarta Project

This article is from the "Best Practices" section of Sun's Dot-Com Builder Site. Author: Laura Geele Wang URL: http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp

Making a Mountain Out of an Anthill

This article is from the June 2001 issue of the Java Developer' Journal. You need to be a registered JDJ subscriber to view this article. Author: Neal Ford URL: http://www.sys-con.com/java/archivesa.cfm?volume=06&issue=06

Using Ant and Weblogic EJBs

This article describes how to use Ant to create Weblogic EJBs, and some workarounds for issues you may encounter. Author: Jesse E. Tilly URL: http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/06/25/antejb.html

An Introduction to Ant

This article is a short introduction into the basic concepts of Ant. Author: Jayakrishnan Nair URL: http://varnam.org/articles/ant.html

Ant Build Tool

A PowerPoint presentation on Ant 1.2. It provides a basic overview of Ant's capabilities. Author: Patrick Chanezon URL: http://people.netscape.com/chanezon/tech/ant/ant_preso.ppt

Ant

A detailed Ant 1.3 PowerPoint presentation, made at the St. Louis Java Users Group meeting in March 2001. Includes a detailed build file and basic descriptions of all the built in and optional tasks. Author: Mark Volkmann URL: http://www.ociweb.com/javasig/knowledgebase/March2001/index.html

Modern Development Crises

This presentation is an overview of the current state of software development today. There are a couple of slides that briefly cover Ant. Author: Steve Loughran URL: http://www.iseran.com/Steve/modern_development_processes.html