Jim Creasman writes about Ant on IBM's developerWorks. "n the mid-1990s, most of the source code was C or C++. make was the tool of choice for scripting and managing code compilation. Sprinkle in a dash of batch files or shell scripts to add automation and you had a build process. Times change. Enter Java technology, XML, XSLT, extreme programming with continuous build, and a host of other new technologies and ideas. By the late '90s the playing field was looking a lot different. Perhaps the single biggest addition to the set of build tools was Ant."

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