Apache Ant is a Java based build tool from Apache Software Foundation.

Apache Ant's build files are written in XML and they take advantage of being open standard, portable and easy to understand.

This tutorial should show you how to use Apache ANT to automate the build and deployment process in simple and easy steps.

List of Topics :

Ant - Introduction
Ant - Environment Setup
Ant - Build Files
Ant - Property Task
Ant - Property Files
Ant - Data Types
Ant - Building Projects
Ant - Build Documentation
Ant - Creating JAR files
Ant - Creating WAR files
Ant - Packaging Applications
Ant - Deploying Applications
Ant - Executing Java code
Ant - Eclipse Integration
Ant - JUnit Integration
Ant - Extending Ant