Ant is a Java library and command-line tool. Ant's 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 Ivy.

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10. Executing ant script ant [options] [target [target2 [target3] ...]] Options: -help print this message -projecthelp print project help information -version print the version information and exit -diagnostics print information that might be helpful to diagnose or report problems. -quiet, -q be extra quiet -verbose, -v be extra verbose -debug print debugging information -emacs produce logging information without adornments -logfile <file> use given file for log -l <file> '' -logger <classname> the class which is to perform logging -listener <classname> add an instance of class as a project listener -buildfile <file> use given buildfile -file <file> '' -f <file> '' -D<property>=<value> use value for given property -propertyfile taking precedence -inputhandler <class> the class which will handle input requests -find <file> <name> load all properties from file with -D properties search for buildfile towards the root of the file system and use it

13. Path-like structures – dirset, fileset,filelist <classpath> <pathelement path=&quot;${classpath}&quot;/> < fileset dir=&quot;lib&quot;> <include name=&quot;**/*.jar&quot;/> </fileset> <pathelement location=&quot;classes&quot;/> < dirset dir=&quot;${build.dir}&quot;> <include name=&quot;apps/**/classes&quot;/> <exclude name=&quot;apps/**/*Test*&quot;/> </dirset> < filelist dir=&quot;${src.dir}&quot; files=&quot;foo.xml,bar.xml&quot;/> </classpath>

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