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| 177 | Ant 1.6.5
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| 179 | <h3>June 2, 2005 - Ant 1.6.5 Available</h3>
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| 180 | <p>Apache Ant 1.6.5 is now available for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
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| 181 | <p>This is a bug fix release.</p>
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| 183 | <a name="Apache Ant"></a>
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| 184 | Apache Ant
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| 186 | <p>
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| 187 | Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like
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| 188 | Make, but without Make's wrinkles.
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| 189 | </p>
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| 190 | <p>
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| 191 | Why another build tool when there is already <em>make</em>, <em>gnumake</em>,
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| 192 | <em>nmake</em>, <em>jam</em>, and
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| 193 | others? Because all those tools have limitations that Ant's original author
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| 194 | couldn't live with when developing software across multiple platforms. Make-like
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| 195 | tools are inherently shell-based -- they evaluate a set of dependencies, then
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| 196 | execute commands not unlike what you would issue in a shell. This means that you
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| 197 | can easily extend these tools by using or writing any program for the OS that
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| 198 | you are working on. However, this also means that you limit yourself to the OS,
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| 199 | or at least the OS type such as Unix, that you are working on.
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| 200 | </p>
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| 201 | <p>
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| 202 | Makefiles are inherently evil as well. Anybody who has worked on them for any
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| 203 | time has run into the dreaded tab problem. "Is my command not executing
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| 204 | because I have a space in front of my tab!!!" said the original author of
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| 205 | Ant way too many times. Tools like Jam took care of this to a great degree, but
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| 206 | still have yet another format to use and remember.
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| 207 | </p>
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| 208 | <p>
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| 209 | Ant is different. Instead of a model where it is extended with shell-based
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| 210 | commands, Ant is extended using Java classes. Instead of writing shell commands,
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| 211 | the configuration files are XML-based, calling out a target tree where various
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| 212 | tasks get executed. Each task is run by an object that implements a particular
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| 213 | Task interface.
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| 215 | <p>
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| 216 | Granted, this removes some of the expressive power that is inherent by being
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| 217 | able to construct a shell command such as
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| 218 | <code>`find . -name foo -exec rm {}`</code>, but it
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| 219 | gives you the ability to be cross platform -- to work anywhere and everywhere.
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| 220 | And hey, if you really need to execute a shell command, Ant has an
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| 221 | <code><exec></code> task that
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| 222 | allows different commands to be executed based on the OS that it is executing
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| 223 | on.
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| 226 | <a name="Documentation"></a>
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| 227 | Documentation
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| 230 | You can view the documentation for the current release (Apache Ant 1.6.5)
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