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• Ant - official site
• Manual
• Wiki
• FAQ
• Download
• Ant Troubleshooting

• Ant in Action by Steve Loughran and Erik Hatcher
• Ant: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition by Steven Holzner
• Pro Apache Ant (Pro) by Matthew Moodie
• Java Development with Ant by Erik Hatcher and Steve Loughran
• Ant Developer's Handbook by Alan Williamson

• Get ANT up and Running - CI for ColdFusion Devs (Kris Korsmo)
• How To Install ANT on Windows (Steve Neiland)
• winant - Windows Ant installer (Mason Simon)
• Installation of Ant (OS X) (George Yang)
• Installing Ant on Mac OS X (Andy Jarrett)

• Additional Ant Tasks - FTP, Email, etc.
• Simpler Ant Builds With the Ant Script Library
• Flaka is a plugin for Ant providing: expression language, conditional and repetitive control structures like when, unless, while, for, choose, switch; exception handling amd additional tasks, types and macros

• This is the AntNewbies page where newbies can ask difficult but clear questions
• Automate your Projects with Apache Ant
• Getting Started with Apache Ant (RefCard)
• Intro to Ant (CFDJ / Sys-Con)
• Ant 101 - Intro & Why You Should Check It Out (Todd Sharp)
• Getting Started With Ant (Adam Fortuna)
• Improving ColdFusion Deployment with Ant (Derek Perez)
• General ANT build and release script (Alistair Davidson)
• Ant For Web Applications (Rob Wilkerson)
• FAQ on ANT Building Process by Roseanne Zhang

• Ant In Anger must read
• Ant Best Practices
• 15 Tips for Better Ant Builds
• Built-in Ant Properties (Brian Ghidinelli)
• The Build Doctor: The Ant Best Practices Series (very good)
  • Should every target have a secret?
• Ant Built Templates Great(!) series of posts by Rob Wilkerson
• Hiding password input in Ant (David C. Epler)
• Using ANT While Hiding Your SVN Password
• Build Scripts? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Build Scripts!
• Ant Build Properties

• Troubleshooting Ant - Ant not running? Check out these tips to troubleshoot Ant.
• What does the ANT message - 'Files was unexpected at this time' mean?
• When using ANT to write to the file system, specify a file (Raymond Camden)

• Virtual Ant ($)
• Ant Windows Shell Integration
• Antelope - Ant GUI
• ColdFusion, Ant and Subversion = AntFarm Build Manager
• NAnt for .net
• CFAnt - ColdFusion Adminstrator integration with Ant via the CF Admin API
• Gant to Ant Automagically
• Lean Build Cycles with Antro Antro
• PHing Is Not GNU make
  • Phing - PHP project build system based on Apache Ant
• Deployment Builder ColdFusion based deployment server utilizing Ant
• HTMLCleaner Transforms HTML to well formed XHTML (Ant task)

• Graphviz is open source graph visualization software. It has several main graph layout programs.
• Ant script visualization ant2dot.xsl
• Linguine Maps
• Vizant

You can simply install Eclipse and use it just for Ant! If you install Eclipse - then it has Ant built in:

Eclipse - built in:

• Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) = Ant 1.7.1
• Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede) = Ant 1.7.0

• Using Ant with Eclipse (Simon Whatley)

• Cool Ant file trick and concept (Mike Henke)
• Eclipse Ant FAQ
• Refreshing Eclipse Workspace using ANT (Dan G. Switzer, II)

• Gradle
• Maven
• Gant Groovy based.
• Quokka For Java developers, quokka provides an Ant-based alternative to Maven.

• Performance Tip (Unit tests and ANT) (Mike Nimer)

Unit Test Framework for Ant Tasks AntUnit borrows ideas from JUnit 3.x and the <junit> task. It provides a task that runs build files as unit tests as well as a number of assertion tasks to support the idea.

• http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/antunit/index.html
• Why Ant Unit? (Stefan Bodewig)

• Using the MXUnit Ant Task to generate JUnit Reports
• MXUnit Ant Automation Demo (Video)
• Setting Up MxUnit, Ant, and CruiseControl

• Setting up CFEclipse with Subversion (SVN) inc/Continuous Testing with CFCUnit and Selenium (John Mason)
• cfcUnit 1.2 ANT Task Buildfile Sample (Andrew Powell)
• CFCUnit and Ant (Kevan Stannard)
• Automated Testing with cfcUnit (Sean Corfield)

• Coldfusion with Selenium Ant script (Mike Henke)

• Git Ant Tasks via JGit

• Subversion's post-commit on windows with ANT
• Cruise Control, Ant, and Subversion
• Export Subversion Files Changed between Two Revision Numbers
• Subversion Ant for Files Changed between Two Revision Numbers (Mike Henke)
• Adding The Subversion Build Number To Your Application Using Ant (Brandon Harper)
• Simple Integration of Ant and Subversion (Brandon Harper)
• How to Integrate Subversion, Version Control Software, With Apache ANT (Angsuman Chakraborty)
• Setting Up Ant with Subversion (using Eclipse on OSX) (Jared Rypka-Hauer)
• Subversion Post-Commit Routine (Morgan Kelsey)
• SvnTask A SvnAnt Alternative
• Including Subversion Revision Information With Ant
• See the Svn4Ant task on the Additional Ant Tasks page

• Integrating Subversion Into Your Ant Build
• Using SVN within Ant (Phill Nacelli)
• Subversion and Ant Integration with SVNAnt (Chris Ramsay)
• Ant SVN Task (SvnAnt) and Javahl
• SVN + ANT Goodness (Andrew Powell)
• How to Use SVN Tasks with ANT (Mittal Bhiogade)
• SvnAnt Task/Type Definition Import (Jamie Krug)
• Using SVNANT in your ANT build files with Hudson (Marc Esher)

• DDLUtils DdlUtils is a small, easy-to-use component for working with Database Definition (DDL) files.
• ANT Builds and MS SQL - Run .sql scripts in your build (Phill Nacelli)
• Get results from SQL Ant Task into a property (Mike Henke)
• Using results from SQL Ant task - Part 2 (Mike Henke)
• Using Ant properties within SQL scripts with Incanto’s <sqlplus> Task
• Jump-start with Oracle’s Instant Client and Incanto
• Ant, Groovy and the Database
• Do not pass GO - MS SQL Server's GO Command and Ant (Nathan Mische)
• Executing Stored Procedures via Ant (Anuj Gakhar)

• CFCompile Ant Snippet (Mike Henke)
• QueryParam Checker (Adam Presley)

• Ant4CF == Timesaver (Don Quist)
• Ant4CF Home Page
• Ant4CF Mailing List
• Ant4CF Released – Run Build Files Remotely and Interact with ColdFusion Services From Ant Scripts (Doug Hughes)
• A Few Ant4CF 'Gotchas' (Doug Hughes)
• How To Deploy From SVN to Staging and Production Using Ant4CF (Doug Hughes)

• CFANT - Undocumented ColdFusion Tag (Kola Oyedeji)
• Unzip with UTF Support in ColdFusion Curtosy of Ant via cfant (Boyan Kostadinov)
• CFUnit and CFAnt (Terrence Ryan)
• Introducing CFANT (Doug Hughes)
• CFAnt and Ant 1.7 on CF8 (Marc Escher)

• Ant: Launch Flash Player Target For Mac (Ryan Taylor)

• Ant Remote Tasks
• Automated Deploys using SSH and Ant
• Ant SCP/SSH Task Hangs Or Never Disconnects
• Using FTP within ant (Phill Nacelli)
• Getting FTP to Work with Ant in Eclipse (Brandon Harper)
• Secure Copy using the Ant SCP Task (Rob Wilkerson)

• Single Click Deploy of a ColdFusion Project from ANT (Bill Rawlinson)
• Deploying assets to Amazon S3 with Ant (Brian Ghidinelli) Excellent example modifying files during deployment.
• Ant basics: Copying directories (Andy Jarrett)
• Ant: Copying files and directories (Andy Jarrett)
• Ant: Moving files and directories (Andy Jarrett)
• Eclipse & Ant Tidbit (modifing a file using Ant) (Andrew Scott)
• Ant 101 - Replacing Strings Within A File (Todd Sharp)
• Using ANT and ColdFusion to Emulate Rails Generators (Brian Kotek)
• ANT and duplicate files in archives
• Parsing data file using Ant (Sujee)
• Apache Ant - How to search a and replace regular expressions inside a text (Giorgio Ferrara)
• Apache Ant - How to find empty directories (Giorgio Ferrara

• Duck Typing - Ant Script (Adam Haskell)
• Use eclipse, ant and cfcompile.bat to precompile your code (Adam Howitt)
• Variable Replacement with Ant (Rob Wilkerson)
• Building Web Applications With Apache Ant (Julien Lecomte)
• Use Ant to Maintain Custom Framework Builds (Paul Marcotte)
• varScoper Ant Target example (Mike Henke)
• Managing Multiple Build Environments (Federico Cargnelutti)
• Using Var Scoper in Your ANT Builds (Eric Cobb)

• Ant Can Mail Stuff (Scott Stroz)

Also see Additional Ant Tasks for FTP, Email, etc.

• Flaka - Simplifying Ant build scripts.
• Flex Ant Tasks
• AntForm AntForm is a java tool designed to add interaction to Ant scripts through graphical forms.
• List of other library dependencies

• Deploying cached CSS and JS with Ant (Mike Schierberl)
• JSMin Ant Task
• Adding JS/CSS compression and JS validation using YUI Compressor, JSLint, and jsmin to Ant script (Mike Henke)
• Minify CSS/JS ant revisited using YUI compressor (Mike Henke)
• Ant task for JavaScript compression
• YUI Compression tool as Ant Task
• Obfuscating JavaScript and CSS: Open Source vs Commercial Solutions
• Building Web Applications With Apache Ant
• Minifying JS/CSS
• Build-Time Aggregation of JS/CSS Assets (Barney Boisvert)

• Templates for building complex Flex projects with Ant
• Installing Ant in Flex Builder 3 (Jody Brewster)
• Quick Tips To Speed Up Your Ant Build (Theo Hultberg)
• Automatically Create an Ant Buildfile From Your Flex Builder Project with Flex2Ant
• iFac - Ant plugin for Flex Builder and Eclipse
• Adding Build, Build Date, Revision and Revision Date in your Flex App
• Quick Tip For Installation of FTP Tasks in Flex Builder (Dan Wilson)

• Using Apache Ant with the SDK tools

• StatSVN - StatSVN generates tables and charts describing the project development.
  • Automated Subversion Reports w/StatSVN and Ant
• Pushbutton Documentation
  • UMLGraph - UMLGraph allows the declarative specification and drawing of UML class and sequence diagrams.
  • SchemaSpy - Generates a visual representation of database schema.
  • Grand - Grand is a tool to create visual representation of ant target dependencies.

• Ant – Automation is a Frontenders Friend (Adrian Pomilio)
• Opening a url in the default browser with Ant (Chris Blackwell)
• Building Web Applications With Apache Ant
• Automation blog
• Launching Firefox from ANT on OSX (Darron Schall)
• Ant Task to Refactor Transfer To Meet Your Server Layout (Luis F. Majano)
• Ant Task To Restart Apache (Scott Stroz)
• Visualizing Data: Self-Documenting Ant files
• Schedule Updating SVN Working Copies -- ANT (Mike Henke)
• Schedule Updating SVN Working Copies (Mike Henke)
• Backing Up Your Files with Ant and Eclipse (Anuj Gakhar)
• Using the ANT build.number File (Duncan Loxton)
• Automation for the people: Speed deployment with automation
• Beyond the Ant basics (Sing Li)
• Running an ANT script in a .bat/.cmd file under Windows
• Visual Documentation of Ant Dependencies in 3 Simple Steps
• Separation of concerns in Ant (Julian Simpson)
• Play a .wav sound when you build has completed (Dr James Bayley)
• Using Ant and Say Command for Notification (Terry Ryan)

• Ant On The Wire (Marc Esher) Download
• Pragmatic ColdFusion: Build, Test, Deploy (John Paul Ashenfelter) Download
• cf.Objective Presentation 2008 (PDF) (Peter Farrell)
• BACFUG presentation (Peter Farrell)
• Build Automation with Ant & Groovy (Nathan Strutz)
• ColdFusion Meetup Introduction To Ant Presentation (Jim Priest)
• Ant Ain't Hard (David C. Epler)

• Marc Esher
  • CFUnited 2009 – Automate like a Rock Star: Do more work in less time (Download)
  • CFUnited 2008 - Automating the build/deployment process with ANT (Download)
• Qasim Rasheed - CFUnited 2008
  • Continuous Integration with SVN, ANT, CFUnit and Selenium (code and presentation links)

• Ant Properties

• My ColdFusion Meetup Introduction To Ant Presentation

• build.xml Build script
• db.build.xml MySQL build script
• priestj.properties
• build.properties

• build.xml (older)
• common.properties
• server.properties

• Kroger Buildfile (Adam Haskell)

• Ant, Maven and Other Build Tools (forum)