Ant Developer’s Handbook

Developing in a Standard Directory Tree

With a title like that for this section, you’re probably thinking this sounds about as exciting as reading a dictionary, but hold on! This is stuff you need to know. In this section, we’ll to cover a standard directory tree structure for your projects. Obviously, there isn’t actually a standard for this type of thing yet, but this is a good starting point.

Directory Tree for Simple Projects

Let’s begin by talking about the base structure for any type of project and then move into Web applications. For most applications, you’ll have source code (otherwise, why would you need Ant?) that must be compiled, and you’ll also have .class files that must go somewhere. You’ll (probably) create some sort of archive ...