In our previous article, we introduced Ant, the Java-based build tool. Ant was specifically designed to work with Java projects, and it benefits from being written entirely in Java. It works anywhere ...

One of convenient classes that Groovy provides is the AntBuilder class, whose purpose is best described in the Javadoc-based documentation: “Allows Ant tasks to be used with GroovyMarkup.” The ...

Ant extensions To add a custom task to Ant, the Ant manual recommends using an Ant class intended for this purpose, like the Task class. But, even this recommendation is not mandatory; Ant can invoke ...