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Apache Ant/Best Practices
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Here are some of the Ant best practices that have been identified for creating maintainable Ant build files. Best Practices are not enforced by any compiler but they are conventions that allow people that are maintaining many projects to become quickly familiar with your build process.
Learn Ant Best Practices
Building your Ant Vocabulary
Study ant build scripts for other Open Source projects
Learn domain-specific targets such as building jar files, doing XML transforms or complex installs
Depending on diversity of tasks this might take a few hours to a few weeks
What to do about local file system paths
/Local Property Files/
/Local File Systems/
Standard Targets
/Standard Targets/