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<H1 CLASS="Head">Ant &amp; external tools tutorial</H1>
<P CLASS="Para">This chapter covers Eclipse's external tools framework, and its
integration with <a href="http://ant.apache.org/">Ant</a>, the build tool from
the <a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache Software Foundation</a>. For more
information on Ant, see the <a href="http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html">Apache
Ant manual</a> for documentation. This chapter assumes a basic knowledge of
Ant.</P>
<P CLASS="Para">This chapter is split into three main sections. The basics
of working with Ant buildfiles in Eclipse are covered in the first section.
Several Eclipse use cases will be discussed in the second section, and finally,
the external tools framework and how to use non-Ant tools is considered in the
third section.</P>
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