What Can I Do to Help?

Much like any other open source effort, the drive behind bringing Ant forward is the user community and the developers. Much respect is due the developers who continue to make Ant what it is. These are people who have given their spare time to produce a tool that is pretty darn cool, to say the least! Shaping the future of Ant is very much a team effort and, as an Ant user, you can have a role to play. By participating and possibly even contributing code to the Ant project, you can help build an even better tool.

Full details of how you can get involved with Ant (or any other Jakarta project for that matter) can be found at http://jakarta.apache.org/site/getinvolved.html. But for the purposes of this chapter, I’ll summarize ...

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