Category Archives: Ant

A little while ago Stefan was blogging a fair bit about Microsoft’s answer to Ant, MSBuild. I haven’t gone into it in any depth but I think it was an interesting development. In fact a good friend of mine who … Continue reading →

I’ve not been able to work on Ant much lately due to other commitments – things like the Bathurst 1000, Rugby World Cup, work, etc. In fact I have been doing some of .net development but more on that later. … Continue reading →

Long time Ant committer, Stefan Bodewig, has a blog. Stefan is one of the nicest, most helpful and most knowledgeable people I have had the fortune to work with as part of open-source development. I look forward to his blog.

The first beta for Ant 1.6 is out and it has a lot of changes, both bug fixes and new functionality. I think it warrants a reasonably long beta period. The main thing now is to get people to try … Continue reading →

I recently worked on an Ant bug report to do with shutdown hooks. This bug involves the firing of shutdown hooks in JVMs started with Ant’s <java> task when Ant itself is shutdown. The bug in Ant was that these … Continue reading →