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-<h1><a name="introduction">Introduction</a></h1>
-<p>Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like
-<i>make</i>, without <i>make</i>'s wrinkles.</p>
-<h3>Why?</h3>
-<p>Why another build tool when there is already
-<i>make</i>,
-<i>gnumake</i>,
-<i>nmake</i>,
-<i>jam</i>,
-and
-others? Because all those tools have limitations that Ant's original author
-couldn't live with when developing software across multiple platforms.
-Make-like
-tools are inherently shell-based: they evaluate a set of dependencies,
-then execute commands not unlike what you would issue on a shell.
-This means that you
-can easily extend these tools by using or writing any program for the OS that
-you are working on; however, this also means that you limit yourself to the OS,
-or at least the OS type, such as Unix, that you are working on.</p>
-<p>Makefiles are inherently evil as well. Anybody who has worked on them for any
-time has run into the dreaded tab problem. &quot;Is my command not executing
-because I have a space in front of my tab?!!&quot; said the original author of
-Ant way too many times. Tools like Jam took care of this to a great degree, but
-still have yet another format to use and remember.</p>
-<p>Ant is different. Instead of a model where it is extended with shell-based
-commands, Ant is extended using Java classes. Instead of writing shell commands,
-the configuration files are XML-based, calling out a target tree where various
-tasks get executed. Each task is run by an object that implements a particular
-Task interface.</p>
-<p>Granted, this removes some of the expressive power that is inherent in being
-able to construct a shell command such as
-<nobr><code>`find . -name foo -exec rm {}`</code></nobr>, but it
-gives you the ability to be cross-platform--to work anywhere and
-everywhere. And
-hey, if you really need to execute a shell command, Ant has an
-<code>&lt;exec&gt;</code> task that
-allows different commands to be executed based on the OS it is executing
-on.</p>
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