Ant

To write the text message to a file in ant, you can use ant target echo, it provides the way to directly append to an existing file or write to the new file.

The below target print_classpath in build xml demonstrates how to print the project classpath in ant script, this gives the ability to check loaded classpath at runtime.

The Ant verbose option can give you the information about what Ant is doing. you can turn on the verbose flag to debug the ant script: How to do?

how to get current directory in Ant ? To get the current directory, you can directly use ant build-in property ${basedir}, it  gives us the actual directory

Ant has task Tstamp which easily get the current date or system time with TODAY property, the output date can be formatted in any particular custom date/time

The propose of this tutorial is to retrieve the current logged username, computer name and operation system name in Ant, we echo these values in below example.

Ant has a build-in task Property that can access OS-specific environment variables, Property's parameter environment is the prefix to use when retrieving

If we execute the Junit test cases in Ant (most of the time we do) and some cases fail, we may expect to debug Java code in Ant to analyze the failures.

Ant has built-in property ${ant.java.version}, you can directly use it to get Java or JVM version, the following example prints out Java version. Build.xml <

When JAR files are published, it has by default no signature included so nobody would likely trust this source, it is best to digitally sign the JAR files