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Apache Ant
Software tool for automating software build processes. It is an XML contained list of procedural steps to perform in order to build a software project. The main known usage of Ant is the build of Java applications. Ant supplies a number of built-in tasks allowing to compile, assemble, test and run Java applications.
| First released | 2000 |
| Developed by | Apache Software Foundation |
| Latest stable version | Apache Ant 1 |
| Open-source | Not defined |
Interesting facts
Apache Ant is becoming less popular. The ‘newer’ Java build tools are Maven or Gradle.