Creating Ant Build File
This section describes how to create the Ant build file manually.
IntelliJ IDEA provides a framework for editing build files, but it is the developer's responsibility to populate the build file with targets.
Creating Ant build file
- In the Project window, select the directory, where the build file should be created.
- Right-click the directory and choose on the context menu, or press Alt+Insert.
- In the New File dialog, specify the name of the new file with
.xml
extension, for example,build.xml
. The new file opens in the editor. - Specify the build targets. You can use the path-like structures in the
fileset
ordirset
directives to defineYou have to enter at least a root tag in the
build.xml
file. Otherwise the file will not be added to the Ant Build tool window. - Add the build file to the project.
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Last modified: 18 July 2017