Chapter 10. The Future Direction of Ant
Since its beginnings in the arms of James Davidson, Ant has grown immensely, and it is very much still growing. Ant has come from offering facilities designed to build one specific project to a tool that meets the demands of many projects. As Ant grows, it lends itself to more tasks, although its primary focus has always been as a build tool. This chapter looks at the plans in place to bring Ant to the next level of maturity, giving you—the Ant user— a taste of what is to come.
In this book, we’ve addressed the data types and both core and optional tasks. These are accurate for version 1.5, but chances are that from the time this chapter was written until the time you read it, more tasks will have been ...
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