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Installing and Configure Apache Ant

Apache Ant is fully fledged open source toll we can download from Apache Distributed System. The latest Apache Ant version, including its full-source code, class files, and documentation can be found at http://ant.apache.org

Install Apache Ant on Windows

You just need to download the Ant’s zip file, and Unzip it, and configure the ANT_HOME Windows environment variables.

Step 1: Make sure you have a Java environment installed.(JAVA_HOME, PATH)
Click Here for Java Environment Setup

Step 2: Download Apache Ant. http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#getBinary.

Step 3: Unzip the downloaded file into a directory. As below

Step 4: Set environmental variables JAVA_HOME to your Java environment, ANT_HOME to the directory you unzip Ant to, and add ${ANT_HOME}/bin

Step 5: Append the path to the Apache Ant batch file to the PATH environment variable. In our case this would be the D:personal dataapache-ant-1.9.7bin folder.

Step 6: Check Installation
You can check the basic installation with opening a new shell and typing ant -version

Dinesh Rajput

Dinesh Rajput is the chief editor of a website Dineshonjava, a technical blog dedicated to the Spring and Java technologies. It has a series of articles related to Java technologies. Dinesh has been a Spring enthusiast since 2008 and is a Pivotal Certified Spring Professional, an author of a book Spring 5 Design Pattern, and a blogger. He has more than 10 years of experience with different aspects of Spring and Java design and development. His core expertise lies in the latest version of Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Security, creating REST APIs, Microservice Architecture, Reactive Pattern, Spring AOP, Design Patterns, Struts, Hibernate, Web Services, Spring Batch, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Web Application Design and Architecture. He is currently working as a technology manager at a leading product and web development company. He worked as a developer and tech lead at the Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd and was the first developer in his previous company, Paytm. Dinesh is passionate about the latest Java technologies and loves to write technical blogs related to it. He is a very active member of the Java and Spring community on different forums. When it comes to the Spring Framework and Java, Dinesh tops the list!