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AntBuilder

AntBuilder gathers from you a few items of information about your project, and then builds from those an Ant build.xml file with the following uses:

ant -p

Displays all the targets you can use (Ant will do this for any of its scripts; AntBuilder merely ensures that the right targets are visible this way);

ant all

Builds everything from a clean start;

ant compile

Compiles what needs changing;

ant jar

Builds the JAR for your project;

ant jar4, ant jar5, ant jar6, and jar7

Builds the JAR for your project based on a particular target (Java 1.4, Java 1.5, Java 1.6, or Java 1.7);

ant docs

Builds the JavaDoc for your project;

ant dist

Builds a distributable package containing your software and, optionally, source code, documentation, and miscellaneous files;

ant gitlog

Generates a changelog from the output of the 'git log -M --namestatus' command.

AntBuilder saves your settings in a hidden file (.antbuildrc) in the current directory and reads them again when you decide to change what the build.xml file contains.

AntBuilder writes the build.xml file as _build.xml, requiring you to rename it or copy it over your existing build.xml file; it will never destroy your existing build.xml

The build.xml that AntBuilder generates can either reference external libraries in the Class-Path field of the JAR's manifest, or repackage (extract/transfer) the contents of libraries into your own JAR for delivery of a single JAR without external dependencies.

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