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5 5  * [[WOProject Ant Tasks (old site)>>http://objectstyle.org/woproject-old/ant/]]
6 6  * [[Embedding WOFrameworks]]
7 +Please see the link to the old site above until the core documentation is moved to this new wiki.
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9 +=== Introduction ===
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11 +Ant build files are broken into what are called 'targets', similar to a Makefile. These targets are a group of, what are called, 'tasks'. Tasks are used for getting work done; they make something happend directly, e.g. move files on the filesystem, compile java files into classes, transfer files from one server to another over ssh.
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13 +While Ant is distributed with around fifty built-in tasks, any number of customized tasks can easily be added by developers outside of the core Ant team.
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15 +WOProject is such a project. WOProject adds a half dozen tasks to Ant. These tasks allow WebObject developers the freedom to use Ant in their build process, instead of the using Apple's XCode suite.
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17 +Reasons for using Ant to build WebObjects frameworks and applications:
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19 +* Ant if highly configurable and flexible, with constant additions from the open source community, and is considered a defacto standard by the Java community
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21 +* Builds of project with a very large number of files without dependency failures
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23 +* Allows easy automation of daily builds for team of developers, i.e. nightly builds for smoke testing, etc.