Apache Ant Fundamentals

Pluralsight

Course Summary

Learn the fundamentals of Apache Ant, a powerful and easy to use open-source build tool.

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Course Description

Learn the fundamentals of Apache Ant, a powerful and easy to use open-source build tool mainly for Java, providing a number of built-in tasks for compiling, assembling, and testing Java applications. Ant can also be used effectively to build C or C++ applications or perform file management tasks for any sort of project.

Course Description

Learn the fundamentals of Apache Ant, a powerful and easy to use open-source build tool mainly for Java, providing a number of built-in tasks for compiling, assembling, and testing Java applications. Ant can also be used effectively to build C or C++ applications or perform file management tasks for any sort of project.

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Course Syllabus

Introduction to Ant
- 28m 16s

—What Is Ant? 3m 24s
—Installing Ant 2m 47s
—Ant Structure 9m 2s
—Running Ant From the Command Line 2m 37s
—Running Ant From an IDE 8m 48s
—Summary 1m 36s

Ant Tasks
- 44m 2s

—Overview 1m 41s
—Compile Tasks 3m 24s
—Archive Tasks 5m 27s
—File Tasks 6m 2s
—JavaDoc Tasks 2m 38s
—Property Tasks 4m 19s
—Version Control Tasks 2m 40s
—JUnit Tasks 5m 35s
—Mail Tasks 2m 45s
—Remote Tasks 3m 29s
—XML Tasks 4m 24s
—Summary 1m 33s

Ant Elements
- 34m 53s

—Overview 1m 41s
—PatternSet 1m 40s
—DirSet 0m 47s
—FileSet 1m 16s
—FileList 0m 48s
—FileMapper 4m 43s
—FilterReader and FilterChain 6m 56s
—Selectors 5m 0s
—ClassFileSet 1m 2s
—Paths 1m 13s
—Listeners and Loggers 5m 21s
—Summary 4m 20s

Full Example
- 27m 46s

—End to End Build 3m 12s
—Building a Skeleton 5m 12s
—Defining Properties 2m 25s
—The Init Task 1m 6s
—Starting and Stopping Logging 0m 54s
—The Prepare Task 0m 50s
—Fetching the Source Code 1m 1s
—Compiling 1m 27s
—Testing With JUnit 2m 27s
—Building the WAR File 1m 42s
—Deploying 1m 45s
—Sending Email Reports 1m 22s
—Running the Example 3m 5s
—Summary 1m 13s

Course Summary
- 6m 22s

—Extending Ant 3m 13s
—Summary 3m 8s