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- Gathering & packaging files
- ant is a Java-based build program designed for compilation & deployment of code files, primarily Java
- Ant is part of Apache Group's Jakarta project, download located at http://jakarta.apache.org
- But it's a pretty flexible tool -- it's quite capable of gathering, compressing, and making a package
- It uses XML to create it's scripts
- Ant is also cross-platform
- It also has a few drawbacks:
- Ant is not built by any means for doing graphics -- which means if you want something special done, ant may or may not be able to handle it.
- Ant's relatively new -- only a few years old -- and so has a smaller installed base
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