386 WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Concepts, Planning, and Design Guide
12.3.3 Task automation with Ant
WebSphere Application Server V8.5 provides a copy of the Ant tool and a set of Ant tasks that
extend the capabilities of Ant to include product-specific functions. Ant has become a popular
tool among Java programmers.
Apache Ant is a platform-independent, Java language-based build automation tool. It is
configurable through XML script files and extensible through the use of a Java API. In addition
to the base Ant program and tasks, WebSphere Application Server provides several tasks
that are specific to managing and building applications in WebSphere Application Server.
In the Ant environment, you can create platform-independent scripts ...