Ant Developer’s Handbook

Summary

This chapter began with a study of a useful standard development directory tree. You’ll find lots of projects that use this format or one very close to it. Whatever directory structure you choose, remember to keep your source files separated from your binary output, and to place your source files in package-structure directories under your source folder.

Next, we covered the basic targets that every Ant build file you create will most likely have. We discussed the common names for these targets and what each target does. Simple examples of each target were provided.

We moved on to discuss the data types that Ant provides for filtering and selecting directories, files, and text. Combining these data types with the built-in and optional ...