Using the Ant Tool to Manage Servers

Oracle WebLogic Server provides you with the Ant tool and a set of Ant tasks. Ant is a Java-based tool that provides features similar to the make command in UNIX and is used primarily to build Java applications. In addition, Ant offers several built-in tasks to compile, package, test, and deploy Java applications. Ant uses XML build files and lets you perform many tasks such as starting servers; building JAR, WAR, and EAR files; and deploying the applications. You can access the Ant manual at ant.apache.org/manual/index.html. Here are some of the most useful WebLogic Server Ant tasks:

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