
Ant stands for Another Neat Tool, and it is designed to reduce the substantial amount of time developers and associated teams spend in compilation, packaging, deployment, testing, and others. If you are looking to combine build tool and dependency management into one tool, Apache Ant is tailor-made for you.

There is no coding convention, and it is highly flexible. The new additions are referred to as Antlibs, and there are many commercial Antlibs available for versatile applications of the tool. Therefore, developers can add their Ant tasks and types as per requirement. Tool itself is written in Java, and it is a rather open source tool, and It can also be used toĭrive processes which have been designed in targets and tasks perspective.

Besides, Java, itĬan be used for building applications of C and C++. The tool comes withįeatures to compile, test and run applications made in Java. Apache Ant is a Java library tool which is in the form of aĬommand-line which is used to build Java applications.
