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title: "Ant"
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ring: hold
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quadrant: tools
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---
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Apache Ant was build in 1997 to have something like Make in the C/C++ world for Java.
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Ant uses xml files to describe steps required to produce executable artifacts from source code.
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The main concepts of tasks and targets are programmable in an imperative style.
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Apache Ant was and is widely used by large software projects.
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Our recommendation is to stop using Apache Ant for new projects.
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If you are free to choose, we recommend Gradle as an Apache Ant replacement.
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