how-to-integrate-ant-tool-with-eclipse?

ANT Eclipse IDE(latest edition of Eclipse IDE is Galileo) integration is a very simple process as summarized in following steps:


1. As a first step, create a Java Project in Eclipse IDE.


2. Associate a build.xml with this project and ensure you put this XML at the same location as shown in package structure in Eclipse IDE :



The code of build.xml is as given below:

<?xml version="1.0" ?> 
<project name="IQJava" default="execute">

 <target name="init" depends="clean">
  <mkdir dir="build/classes" />
 </target>

 <target name="compile" depends="init">
  <javac srcdir="src" destdir="build/classes" />
 </target>
 
 <target name="execute" depends="compile">
  <java classname="com.iqjava.ant.AntExample" 
              classpath="build/classes" />
 </target>

 <target name="clean">
  <delete dir="build" />
 </target>
 
</project>

3. Run this build XML