What is ANT ?

Ant is a product of Apache. Ant is a tool, based on Java library and command lines. The main motive of ant tool is that it handle the method or process which are mentioned in the build files in form of targets and extension point.
Dependency of these (targets and extension point) upon each other. The main and popular use of this ant tool is that its is build in the applications of JAVA.
Ant furnish the permission as build in form of task as clean, compile, run etc to the Java applications. Ant tool follow the method which are described in the form of targets and tasks. Ant is written in java language. Ant is an open source tool.

Ant - Environment Setup:-

As we know that Ant is an open source tool. So everyone can download and installed this tool in there machine. For installing this tool, you can follow these steps mention below:-

1- It is assumed that you have already downloaded and installed Java Development Kit (JDK) on your computer.

2- Ensure that the JAVA_HOME environment variable is set to the folder where your JDK is installed.

3- Go to http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi and Download .zip file from apache-ant-1.9.6-bin.zip.

4- Unzip the folder and go to and copy path to the root of unzipped folder.

5- Go to Window Start -> Computer -> right click here and select 'Properties' then click on Advanced System Settings.

6- To open a new window. Click on 'Environment Variable' button.

7- Click 'New' button and set variable name as 'ANT_HOME' and variable value as the root path to unzipped folder and click OK.

8- now select 'Path' variable from the list and click 'Edit' and append; %ANT_HOME%\bin or give the root path till where binary files of ant for example- Here is my local system path but you have to provide your own system path. (D:\eclipse-java-luna-SR2-win32-x86_64\apache-ant-1.9.6-bin\apache-ant-1.9.6\bin).

Verifying Ant Installation:-

You can verify that Ant has been installed or not by using below command in the command prompt:-

C:>ant -version