Ant Consulting

Intertech’s consultants are very experienced in improving performance by leveraging tools like Ant.  Our experts help you:

• Understand the fundamental structure of an Ant Build File including projects, targets, tasks, dependent tasks, and properties
• Leverage command line-options, custom environment variables, and logging
• Create conditional builds thru properties and conditional logic
• Optimize Ant for use with Java including correct use of command line options and alternate compilers
• Call Tasks within same or separate build files
• Create JAR files including working with the META-INF Directory and manifest files
• Define a strategy for build versioning/numbers
• Package builds thru TAR files, gzip, and zip files
• Deploy applications in-house and remote via methods like FTP
• Setup automatized builds
• Leverage and integrate with tools like Cruise Control, Gump, and JUnit
• Access code from CVS including checking out modules, updating shared code, committing code, and determine changes between versions
• Extend Ant by executing external programs and handling return codes and  timeouts
• Handle multithreaded tasks
• Target web environments including creating files like WAR archives or CAB files and deploy to environments like Tomcat
• Integrate Ant with Eclipse
• Validate XML documents, load properties from XML files, and create Ant Task DTDs
• Create custom listeners, loggers, selectors, types, and filters
• Target issues and bugs in existing Ant files

For more information, view Intertech's complete Java Power Tools automated build and deploy offering.