ANT Build Integration

ANT is a powerful, Java-based build tool developed by the Apache Foundation's Jakarta Project. It can be used to control complex build tasks in Java and other development environments. ANT manages specific actions though tasks that can either be part of the core ANT distribution or available as extensions.

InstallAnywhere comes with an ANT task to build installers from ANT. The InstallAnywhere ANT task is located in your InstallAnywhere application folder inside resource, then inside build. Add iaant.jar to your classpath when executing ANT to access the InstallAnywhere ANT task.

ANT uses an XML file to specify the order of tasks for your build process. More information on ANT can be found on the Apache Foundation's Jakarta ...

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