Apache Ant 1.10.10 released – Better test result summary from junitlauncher task

Apache Ant 1.10.10 got released around a month back. Among the usual bug fixes, we added a new enhancement for…

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Apache Ant 1.10.6 released – fork mode for junitlauncher and new jmod and link tasks

Apache Ant 1.10.6 has been released this week. This release contains numerous bug fixes as well as some very exciting…

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Apache Ant 1.9.13 and 1.10.5 released – Supports Java 11 single-file source programs

We just released 1.9.13 and 1.10.5 versions of Apache Ant. As usual, you can download it from the Ant project…

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Ant 1.10.3 released with JUnit 5 support

We just released 1.9.11 and 1.10.3 versions of Ant today. The downloads are available on the Ant project’s download page. Both these…

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Displaying Paths in Ant

In the blog posts Java and Ant Properties Refresher and Ant <echoproperties /> Task, I wrote about how being able…

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Java Build Tools: Ant vs Maven vs Gradle

In the beginning there was Make as the only build tool available. Later on it was improved with GNU Make.…

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Apache Ant tasks for JMX access

I wanted to invoke JMX operations from the Ant tasks. However finding usable ant tasks library as well as the…

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4 simple steps to migrate legacy projects from Ant to Maven

For some time we were thinking about migrating our build to maven from ant. It happened last month and was…

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Ant Properties Nuances

Every once in a while, I’m reminded of a few subtle nuances of Ant properties that can, when forgotten, lead…

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