The Working with Apache Ant training course teaches developers the skills and knowledge needed to use Ant as an automated build tool. The course begins with an overview of automated build concepts and motivations. It then moves into a discussion about Ant as a build tool, in terms of its architecture, implementation, and operation. With the foundation laid, the course then examines how to setup an Ant build.xml file, externalize build configuration information through properties files, and define and execute tasks. The course concludes with a discussion of common Ant tasks, like continuous integration tasks, packaging tasks, etc.
Course Summary
Hands-on training is customized, instructor-led training with an in-depth presentation of a technology and its concepts, featuring such topics as Java, OOAD, and Open Source.
What You'll Learn
In the Working with Apache Ant training course you’ll learn:
- Introduction to Ant
- Installing Ant
- Ant concepts and terminologies
- Working with Ant
- Integrating ANT into your IDE
- Ant in the Real-World
- Ant Tasks
- Automating your build and testing through Ant tasks
- Using Ant for automated deployment
- Integrating Ant with a version control system
- Creating Custom Ant tasks
