Working with Apache Ant Course | DevelopIntelligence

Course Summary

The Working with Apache Ant training course is designed to demonstrate the skills and knowledge needed to use Apache Ant as an automated build tool.

The Automating Builds with Apache Ant training 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. The course concludes with a discussion of common Ant tasks, like continuous integration tasks and packing tasks.

Purpose

Learn how to use Apache Ant as your automated build tool.

Audience

Build Engineers and Developers working on projects that use Ant as an automated build tool.

Role

Q/A - Software Developer - System Administrator

Skill Level

Intermediate

Style

Learning Spikes - Workshops

Duration

3 Days

Related Technologies

Apache Ant

Build Tools

Apache

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Productivity Objectives:

Distinguish the differences between Ant and other build tools like Maven and Make.
Create a basic build.xml file from scratch.
Analyze embedded properties and external properties using properties files.
Integrate Ant with your Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
Modify the build file to execute common tasks, like unit tests, jar, etc.
Modify the build file to integrate the build process with a version control system like SVN.
Describe the capabilities of extending Ant through custom tasks.

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Project-focused demos and labs using your tool stack and environment, not some canned "training room" lab.
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What You'll Learn

In the Working with Apache Ant training course, you'll learn:

Introduction to Ant
- What is Ant
- How did we get here
- Ant v. Make v. Maven v. Ivy
Installing Ant
- System requirements
- Getting the software
- “installing the software”
- Dealing with library dependencies
- Gotchas on different platforms
Building hello world with Ant
- A simple hello world Java application
- A quick and dirty build file
- Command line options
- Environment variables and system properties
Ant concepts and terminologies
- Projects
- Targets
- Properties
- Working with Built in properties
- Adding polish to ‘quick and dirty’ build file
Working with Ant
- Filters
- Pathing
- References
- Logging
Ant Tasks
- Archive Tasks
- File Tasks
- Compile Tasks
- Execution Tasks
- Properties Tasks
Integrating ANT into your IDE
Automating your build and testing through Ant tasks
- Testing Tasks
- Ant and continuous integration servers
- Archiving Tasks
- Deployment tasks
- Integrating Ant with a version control system
Creating Custom Ant tasks