* Notes from Joran [[User:JAnastasiade| Jordan Anastasiade tutorial]] Notes and [http://ant.apache.org/manual/ Apache Manual]

:ant buildfiles are written in XML – build.xml. Each buildfile contains one project and at least one (default) target.:Targets contain task elements<codesource lang=java>

<project name="First" default="build" basedir="."> <target name="build" > <javac srcdir="." debug="false" optimize="false" includes="**/*.java" /> </target> </project></codesource>:A project has three attributes: '''name''': the name of the project. '''default''': the default target to use when no target is supplied. '''basedir''': the base directory from which all path calculations are done: Each project defines one or more targets which are a set of task elements you want to execute: When starting ant, you can select which target(s) you want to have executed :A target has the following attributes: '''name''': the name of the target. '''depends''': a comma-separated list of names of targets. '''if''': the name of the property that must be set in order for this target to execute :It should be noted, however, that Ant's depends attribute only specifies the order in which targets should be executed - it does not affect whether the target that specifies the dependency(s) gets executed if the dependent target(s) did not (need to) run. ::'''NOTE''': In Cygwin in the ''build'' folder. Just typing ''ant'', will build the default target of the project. But typing '' ant assign1.test'' for example, will build dependents too.