15 Ant Tips

Friday 26 October 2007 - Filed under Code

Saw this on DZone – Dan presents 15 Tips for Better Ant Builds.

I’ve been looking at my Ant scripts lately trying to figure out how to improve them and I’m going to implement some of Dan’s tips. Especially #9 – using an external property file to hold my configuration info. I also like his tip in #5 to prefix internal targets with a “-”. If you are currently using Ant I’d highly recommend checking it out. If you aren’t using Ant yet – why not?!?

In his article he also mentions yWorks Ant Explorer which looks like a neat tool – and is available as an Eclipse plugin!

2007-10-26  »  Jim Priest