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Ant

The Ant plugin is designed to bring the power of Ant and Eclipse together. Ant is a Java based build tool. It exists independent of Eclipse as an Apache open source project.

Integrating Ant into Eclipse means:

Executing Ant buildfiles from Eclipse
Enabling access to Eclipse resources/function from Ant buildfiles (i.e., providing Ant tasks for Eclipse)
Providing UI support for running Ant buildfiles and managing their output
Providing Ant buildfile development facilities (e.g., buildfile editors, debuggers, ...)

How do I install the Ant plugin?

How do I work with the Ant plugin?

For more information on the Ant plugin, see http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/ant/

For more information on Apache Ant, see http://ant.apache.org/