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175 <a name="Ant 1.6.2"></a>
176 Ant 1.6.2
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178 <h3>July 16, 2004 - Ant 1.6.2 Available</h3>
179 <p>Apache Ant 1.6.2 is now available for <a href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi">download</a>.</p>
180 <p>Nested elements for namespaced tasks and types may belong to the
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187 <a name="Apache Ant"></a>
188 Apache Ant
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191Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like
192Make, but without Make's wrinkles.
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195Why another build tool when there is already <em>make</em>, <em>gnumake</em>,
196<em>nmake</em>, <em>jam</em>, and
197others? Because all those tools have limitations that Ant's original author
198couldn't live with when developing software across multiple platforms. Make-like
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202you are working on. However, this also means that you limit yourself to the OS,
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206Makefiles are inherently evil as well. Anybody who has worked on them for any
207time has run into the dreaded tab problem. "Is my command not executing
208because I have a space in front of my tab!!!" said the original author of
209Ant way too many times. Tools like Jam took care of this to a great degree, but
210still have yet another format to use and remember.
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213Ant is different. Instead of a model where it is extended with shell-based
214commands, Ant is extended using Java classes. Instead of writing shell commands,
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221able to construct a shell command such as
222<code>`find . -name foo -exec rm {}`</code>, but it
223gives you the ability to be cross platform -- to work anywhere and everywhere.
224And hey, if you really need to execute a shell command, Ant has an
225<code>&lt;exec&gt;</code> task that
226allows different commands to be executed based on the OS that it is executing
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241 <a name="Nightly Builds"></a>
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