ant - a Java based make tool.

       This manpage is written by Egon Willighagen <egonw@sci.kun.nl>

Debian GNU/Linux                                    Feb 2010                                              ant(1)

       Like  makeant is a tool by which projects can be build. But unlike it, ant is based on Java which means
       it will run on every platform for which a Java Virtual Machine is available. This makes it a  great  tool
       for building Java software.

       By default it takes information from build.xml which describes the targets.

       -help,-h
              print help on the command line options

       -projecthelp,-p
              print project help information

       -version
              print the version information

       -diagnostics
              print information that might be helpful to diagnose or report problems

       -quiet,-q
              be extra quiet

       -silent,-S
              print nothing but task outputs and build failures

       -verbose,-v
              be extra verbose

       -debug,-d
              print debugging information

       -emacs,-e
              produce logging information without adornments

       -lib <path>
              specifies a path to search for jars and classes

       -logfile <file>
              use the given file to output log to

       -logger <classname>
              use the given class to perform logging

       -listener <classname>
              add an instance of the given class as a project listener

       -noinput
              do not allow interactive input

       -buildfile,-file,-f <file>
              use  the  given  buildfile  instead  of  the default build.xml file. This is the ant equivalent of
              Makefile-D<property>=<value>
              use value for the given property

       -keep-going,-k
              execute all targets that do not depend on failed target(s)

       -propertyfile <name>
              load all properties from file with -D properties taking precedence

       -inputhandler <class>
              the class which will handle input requests

       -find,-s <file>
              search for buildfile towards the root of the filesystem and use it

       -nice <number>
              A niceness value for the main thread: 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest); 5 is the default

       -nouserlib
              Run ant without using the jar files from ${user.home}/.ant/lib

       -noclasspath
              Run ant without using CLASSPATH

       -autoproxy
              Java 5 or later : use the OS proxy settings

       -main <class>
              Override Ant's normal entry point

       ant - a Java based make tool.

make(1) mvn(1)

ant [OPTIONS] [TARGET [TARGET2 [TARGET3] ...]]