In this blog we are going to discuss about top 10 build management tools which are most popular and utilised by DevOps professionals. While faster software development and frequent releases are the necessity of today’s ever-changing IT environment, software developers often lack the required skills and time badwidth to complete their tasks on time and…
Ant is a Java library and command-line tool. Ant’s mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other. The main known usage of Ant is the build of Java applications. Ant supplies a number of built-in tasks allowing to compile, assemble, test and run Java applications….
Apache Ant is a software tool for automating software build processes. It is similar to Make but is implemented using the Java language, requires the Java platform, and is best suited to building Java projects. The most immediately noticeable difference between Ant and Make is that Ant uses XML to describe the build process and its…
Apache Ant (or simply Ant) is an XML-based build scripting language used heavily by the Open Source community. Ant automates tasks such as compiling source code, building deployment packages and automatically checking dependencies of what items need to be updated in a build set. Mantosh SinghMotoShare.in delivers cost-effective bike rental solutions, empowering users to save on…
Apache Ant (Another Neat Tool) is a build tool, mainly for Java projects. A build tool can be used to automate certain repetitive tasks, e.g. compiling source code, running software tests, creating jar files, javadocs, etc. A build process typically includes: the compilation of the Java source code into Java bytecode creation of the .jar file…
Sample Ant clean, prepare, and compile tasks <target name=”clean”> <echo>=== CLEAN ===</echo> <delete failonerror=”false”> <fileset dir=”${dest.dir}” includes=”**/*”/> </delete> <delete dir=”${temp.dir}” /> </target> <target name=”prepare” depends=”clean”> <echo>=== PREPARE ===</echo> <mkdir dir=”${dest.dir}” /> <mkdir dir=”${temp.dir}” /> <mkdir dir=”${temp.dir.lib}” /> <mkdir dir=”${temp.dir.meta-inf}” /> <mkdir dir=”${temp.dir.web-inf}” /> <mkdir dir=”${temp.dir.classes}” /> </target> <target name=”compile” depends=”prepare”> <echo>=== COMPILE ===</echo> <echo>Compiling ${src.dir}…
Nurflugel AntScript Visualizer Link: http://www.nurflugel.com/webstart/AntScriptVisualizer About: Ant Script Visualizer is a program I’ve written to make visualizing how your Ant targets and scripts are related to one another. Ever take a look at an Ant build script and, although perfectly readable, not really “see” all the dependencies between targets? What targets depend on a certain…
Apache Ant Task: zip Description: Creates a zipfile. The basedir attribute is the reference directory from where to zip. Note that file permissions will not be stored in the resulting zipfile. It is possible to refine the set of files that are being zipped. This can be done with the includes, includesfile, excludes, excludesfile and…
Usage of ANT_OPTS in Ant Script | ANT_OPTS capabilities Ant has three environment variables that you can use to set its default behavior. • ANT_ARGS Set this variable to include those options you use frequently. • ANT_OPTS is a list of arguments that you want to pass to the JVM that will run Ant. •…
Power Point PPT: Apache Ant Apache Ant from Rajesh Kumar Rajesh KumarI’m a DevOps/SRE/DevSecOps/Cloud Expert passionate about sharing knowledge and experiences. I have worked at Cotocus. I share tech blog at DevOps School, travel stories at Holiday Landmark, stock market tips at Stocks Mantra, health and fitness guidance at My Medic Plus, product reviews…
Power Point PPT: Introduction To Ant Introduction To Ant from Rajesh Kumar Rajesh KumarI’m a DevOps/SRE/DevSecOps/Cloud Expert passionate about sharing knowledge and experiences. I have worked at Cotocus. I share tech blog at DevOps School, travel stories at Holiday Landmark, stock market tips at Stocks Mantra, health and fitness guidance at My Medic Plus,…
Power Point PPT: Introduction of Apache Ant Introduction To Ant from Rajesh Kumar Rajesh KumarI’m a DevOps/SRE/DevSecOps/Cloud Expert passionate about sharing knowledge and experiences. I have worked at Cotocus. I share tech blog at DevOps School, travel stories at Holiday Landmark, stock market tips at Stocks Mantra, health and fitness guidance at My Medic Plus,…
Question: Why Copy in ant is not working if I am putting includes separately? Ant version: Apache Ant version 1.5.4 compiled on January 8 2005. Program 1 is not working and Program 2 is working. I guess both programs are correct.. Program1: <copy todir=”${Temp}/uaw/Uaw_compilescripts”> <fileset dir=”${SVNCheckout}/scripts/compilescripts” > <include name=”BuildSh,Compsh,vsamc,buildc.sh,script,compl2,main.sh,makefile,makepl1,script”/> </fileset> </copy> Program2: <copy todir=”${Temp}/uaw/Uaw_compilescripts”> <fileset…
Question: Why Copy in ant is not working if I am putting includes separately? Ant version: Apache Ant version 1.5.4 compiled on January 8 2005. Program 1 is not working and Program 2 is working. I guess both programs are correct.. Program1: <copy todir=”${Temp}/uaw/Uaw_compilescripts”> <fileset dir=”${SVNCheckout}/scripts/compilescripts” > <include name=”BuildSh,Compsh,vsamc,buildc.sh,script,compl2,main.sh,makefile,makepl1,script”/> </fileset>…
What is an apache ant? Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like Make, but without Make’s wrinkles. Why another build tool when there is already make, gnumake, nmake, jam, and others? Because all those tools have limitations that Ant’s original author couldn’t live with when developing software across…