Ant & external tools tutorial
This chapter covers Eclipse's external tools framework, and its
integration with
Ant, the build tool from
the
Apache Software Foundation. For more
information on Ant, see the
Apache
Ant manual for documentation. This chapter assumes a basic knowledge of
Ant.
This chapter is split into three main sections.
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Eclipse Ant basics: the basics of working with Ant buildfiles in Eclipse are covered
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Ant build files as project builders: several Eclipse use cases are discussed
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External tools: the external tools framework and how to use non-Ant tools are covered
