WAS v8.5 > Administer applications and their environment

Use Ant to automate tasks


To support using Apache Ant with Java EE applications running on the application server, the product provides a copy of the Ant tool and a set of Ant tasks that extend the capabilities of Ant to include product-specific functions. Ant has become a very popular tool among Java programmers.

Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is similar to Make, but Ant is different. Instead of a model in which it is extended with shell-based commands, Ant is extended using Java classes. Instead of writing shell commands, XML-based configuration files are used. These files reference a target tree in which various tasks are run. Each task is run by an object that implements a particular Task interface.

By combining the following tasks with those provided by Ant, we can create build scripts that compile, package, install, and test the application on the application server:


Related


Manage shared libraries


Reference:

Batch compiler ant task


Related information:

Rational Application Developer documentation


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