To automate and simplify the above tasks, Apache Ant is useful. On an average, a developer spends a substantial amount of time doing mundane tasks like build and deployment that include −ĭeploying the binaries to the test serverĬopying the code from one location to another Before going into the details of Apache Ant, let us first understand why we need a build tool. It is a Java-based build tool from computer software development company Apache. Running Ant on the above build file produces the following output −īuildfile: F:\tutorialspoint\ant\build.ANT stands for Another Neat Tool. This can also be useful if source and target files live on separate machines with clocks being out of sync.Ĭreate build.xml with the following content −Ībove script will copy a file say text.txt in the current directory as textcopy.txt. This is needed because not every file system supports tracking the last modified time to the millisecond level. The number of milliseconds leeway to give before deciding a file is out of date.
This attribute is only relevant if there is a mapper subelement. If false the task will only process the first file or directory. If true the task will process to all the mappings for a given source path. The encoding to use when writing the files.
The encoding to assume when filter-copying the files. If true and failonerror is false, then do not log a warning message when the file to copy does not exist or one of the nested filesets points to a directory that doesn't exist or an error occurs while copying.
If false, log a warning message, but do not stop the build, when the file to copy does not exist or one of the nested filesets points to a directory that doesn't exist or an error occurs while copying. Ignore the directory structure of the source files, and copy all files into the directory specified by the todir attribute.Ĭopy any empty directories included in the FileSet(s). Indicates whether token filtering using the global build-file filters should take place during the copy. Overwrite existing files even if the destination files are newer. Give the copied files the same last modified time as the original source files. Files are only copied if the source file is newer than the destination file, or when the destination file does not exist. Copy task copies a file/resource collection to a new file or directory.
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