Ant in Action

List of Figures

Chapter 1. Introducing Ant

Figure 1.1. Conceptual view of a build file. The project encompasses a collection of targets. Inside each target are task declarations, which are statements of the actions Ant must take to build that target. Targets can state their dependencies on other targets, producing a graph of dependencies. When executing a target, all its dependents must execute first.

Chapter 2. A first Ant build

Figure 2.1. The XML Representation of a build file is a tree: the project at the root contains one target, which contains two tasks. This matches the Ant conceptual model: projects contain targets; targets contain tasks.

Figure 2.2. The directory layout for our project—keeping source separate from generated files. ...