• What is Ant?
  
• Why we need Ant?
  
• Ant Advantages and Features

Ant Installation

• Installation
  
• Environment Variables Setup
  
• Ant Version Command

build.xml

• <project>, <target>
  
• Is build.xml name mandatory?

Ant Basic Tasks

• <mkdir>.<delete>
  
• <copy>,<echo>

Ant – Waring, Jaring and Earing Examples

• <javac>,<java>
  
• <jar>,<war>,<ear>,<classpath>

Ant with Eclipse

• Creating Ant application
  
• Running Ant from Eclipse

Ant command options

• ant –f or a –file
  
• ant –help
  
• ant –v
  
• ant –logfile

Ant Advanced Concepts

• Running specific target
  
• Setting default target
  
• Target dependencies
  
• Properties files