Welcome
Apache Ant™
Apache Ant is a Java library and command-line tool whose mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other. The main known usage of Ant is the build of Java applications. Ant supplies a number of built-in tasks allowing to compile, assemble, test and run Java applications. Ant can also be used effectively to build non Java applications, for instance C or C++ applications. More generally, Ant can be used to pilot any type of process which can be described in terms of targets and tasks.
Ant is written in Java. Users of Ant can develop their own "antlibs" containing Ant tasks and types, and are offered a large number of ready-made commercial or open-source "antlibs".
Ant is extremely flexible and does not impose coding conventions or directory layouts to the Java projects which adopt it as a build tool.
Software development projects looking for a solution combining build tool and dependency management can use Ant in combination with Apache Ivy.
The Apache Ant project is part of the Apache Software Foundation.
Apache Ant 1.8.4
May 23, 2012 - Apache Ant 1.8.4 Released
Apache Ant 1.8.4 is now available for download as source or binary from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi.
Ant 1.8.4 fixes a denial of service flaw in the
<bzip2> task present in any version of Ant
since Ant 1.5. For details see the security reports page.
Apache Ivy 2.2.0
September 30, 2010 - Apache Ivy 2.2.0 Released
Apache Ivy 2.2.0 is now available for download as source or binary (with and without dependencies) from http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi.
Key features of the 2.2.0 release are
- enhanced Maven2 compatibility, with several bug fixes and more pom features covered
- new parent mechanism for Ivy files
- improved pom generation from an ivy.xml file
- automated PGP signature generation when uploading artifacts
- numerous bug fixes and improvements as documented in Jira and in the release notes
For more information see the Ivy home page.
Apache Compress Antlib 1.2
April 20, 2012 - Apache Compress Antlib 1.2 Released
The Apache Compress Antlib 1.2 is now available for download as binary or source release.
This release adapts to the 1.4 release of Apache Commons Compress and now adds support for the XZ format and supports a wider variety of tar dialects including limited support for the current POSIX standard.
Documentation
You can view the documentation for the current release (Apache Ant 1.8.4) online
Comprehensive documentation is included in the source and binary distributions.