Overview

Ant commands are used to build software with the Apache Ant build tool. Ant is commonly used to build Java projects, but can also be used to build software written in other languages.

Default Post-Processing

Ant commands apply ant post-processing to their output by default, in order to capture common warning and error messages. The processor searches for messages from both Ant itself and from javac.

Locating Ant

The ant binary is located using the following algorithm:

• If the command's custom ant executable field is set, its value is used.
• If a property named ant.bin is defined, its value is used.
• Otherwise, ant is assumed to be in the PATH (as ant.bat on Windows, or plain ant on other systems).

Note that your pulse™ server may locate ant via resource auto-discovery and set up an appropriate resource for you. To make use of the discovered version of ant add this resource as a requirement.