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| <h1>Ant support</h1> |
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| Apache Ant is an open source, Java-based build tool. See <a href="http://ant.apache.org" target="_blank">http://ant.apache.org</a> |
| for more details.</p> |
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| Ant support allows you to create and run Ant buildfiles from the Workbench. |
| These Ant buildfiles can operate on resources in the file system as well as |
| resources in the workspace. |
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| Output from an Ant buildfile is displayed in the <b><a href="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user/reference/views/console/ref-console_view.htm">Console view</a></b> in the same hierarchical |
| format seen when running Ant from the command line. Ant tasks (for example <code>[mkdir]</code>) |
| are hyper-linked to the associated Ant buildfile, and <code>javac</code> error reports are hyper-linked |
| to the associated Java source file and line number. |
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| You can add classes to the Ant classpath and add Ant tasks and types from the |
| <a class="command-link" href='javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences(preferencePageId=org.eclipse.ant.ui.AntRuntimePreferencePage)")'> |
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| <b>Ant > Runtime</b></a> preference page. |
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| <h3 class="related">Related concepts</h3> |
| <a href="../concepts/concepts-22.htm">Builds</a><br> |
| <a href="../concepts/concepts-exttools.htm">External tools</a> |
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| <h3 class="related">Related tasks</h3> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-ant-running.htm">Running Ant buildfiles</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-ant-classpath.htm">Modifying the Ant classpath</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-ant-addtasksandtypes.htm">Adding new Ant tasks and types</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-ant-version.htm">Using a different version of Ant</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/antRunner.htm">antRunner application entry point</a> |
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| <h3 class="related">Related reference</h3> |
| <a href="../reference/ref-antprefs.htm">Ant preference page</a><br> |
| <a href="../reference/ref-anteditorprefs.htm">Ant editor preference page</a><br> |
| <a href="../reference/ref-antruntimeprefs.htm">Ant runtime preference page</a><br> |
| <a href="../reference/ref-antview.htm">Ant view</a><br> |
| <a href="../reference/ref-anteditor.htm">Ant editor</a><br> |
| <a href="../reference/ref-anticons.htm">External Tools and Ant icons</a><br> |
| <a href="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user/reference/views/console/ref-console_view.htm">Console view</a> |
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