Summary

This chapter took you through some of the most useful optional tasks available with the core distribution of Ant. As you’ve discovered, they compliment the core tasks very nicely and enable you to enrich your development environment, with such facilities as even uploading a file to your FTP server. With Ant being a very popular open source project, new optional tasks are being added all the time, so be sure to keep an eye on the official Ant site for updates.

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