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Entries Tagged as ANT

Better Development Practices with ANT

Posted on October 08, 2007 in ANT

We are in the business of not only writing code, but developing and deploying enterprise class applications. Doing this properly involves a lot more than just writing ColdFusion, Flex, etc. code. When developing an application, we have distributed development environments, a testing/staging area, and a production/release area. We use Subversion for source control and a variety of other testing tools.

One of the problems that comes up with a situation like this is how do you get code out of Subversion, to the development environment, then to testing and production while maintaining the integrity of the application and all of its configuration?The answer I have always given other developers when asked this is something called ANT. However, I have never really used ANT myself and have never really explored under the covers to see what is really possible. The point of this posting and several more to come is to take you along on my journey into all that is Apache’s ANT.