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Java™ Application Development on Linux - Dator

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Chapter 9Ant:An Introducti<strong>on</strong>Ant 1 is a tool for building and deploying collecti<strong>on</strong>s of files. It is particularlysuited to building and deploying Java applicati<strong>on</strong>s (in no small part because itis written in Java). Ant is well worth knowing and using for all but the simplestJava applicati<strong>on</strong>s.9.1WHAT YOU WILL LEARN• How to install and set up Ant.• Enough about XML to read an Ant buildfile.• The basic tags used in most buildfiles.• The extent of our remaining ignorance after completing the chapter.1. I must menti<strong>on</strong> something about the title of this chapter: There was a M<strong>on</strong>ty Pyth<strong>on</strong>’sFlying Circus episode that had this title, and my inner geek couldn’t resist.215

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