Tilly Jesse, Burke Eric. Ant: The Definitive Guide

O’Reilly, 2002. — 312 p. — ISBN: 0-596-00184-3.Ant is the premier build-management tool for Java environments. Ant is part of Jakarta, the Apache Software Foundation's open source Java project repository. Ant is written entirely in Java, and is platform independent. Using XML, a Java developer describes the modules involved in a build, and the dependencies between those modules. Ant then does the rest, compiling components as necessary in order to build the application.