I recently discovered Apache Ant and it’s an absolute godsend! Ant is an automated build system written in Java. You write build(make) files in XML. This allows Ant to be cross-platform which is very handy in my line of work. Previously I used a combination of manual tasks, windows batch files and shell scripts on linux to manage my builds.

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