In any substantial software engineering project, the build tool is one of the most important parts of the developer’s toolkit. Without a solid build tool, the process of compiling, packaging, and ...

You may already use the Apache Ant Java-based build tool to build projects with a presupplied build.xml file. But what if you want to do something more complicated? Knowing how Ant works under the ...

In the post AntBuilder: Groovy Meets Ant, I talked about how AntBuilder combines the best of Ant with Groovy. The Groovy Almanac post Using Ant build.xml and Antbuilder demonstrates how easy it is to ...

One of convenient classes that Groovy provides is the AntBuilder class, whose purpose is best described in the Javadoc-based documentation: “Allows Ant tasks to be used with GroovyMarkup.” The ...