Setup

Environment variables

The environment variables ANT_HOME, JAVA_HOME, and PATH must be set (eg, Settings - Control Panel - System - Advanced - Environment Variables - System Variables).

ANT_HOME=C:\Tools\apache-ant-1.6.5
JAVA_HOME=C:\Tools\jdk1.5.0_03
PATH=%PATH%;%ANT_HOME%\bin

To get started with building with ANT see: http://ant.apache.org/manual/tutorial-HelloWorldWithAnt.html and:

C:\Development\java\learning\ant-tutorial-1

Step 1

Simple build with build.xml.v1 and HelloWorld.java.v1

ant compile
ant jar
ant run

or:

ant compile jar run

And if you want to clean the project:

ant clean

Step 2

More efficient build with build.xml.v2 and HelloWorld.java.v1

ant

Step 3

Full application including an external library (log4j) To build just use ant.