15 Best Practises in ANT

Following are some of the best practices in Ant which are posted in ‘OnJava’…

1. Adopt Consistent Style Conventions

2. Put build.xml in the Project Root Directory

3. Prefer a Single Buildfile

4. Provide Good Help

5. Provide a Clean Target

6. Manage Dependencies

7. Using AntDefine and Reuse Paths

8. Define Proper Target Dependencies

9. Use Properties for Configurability

10. Keep the Build Process Self-Contained

11. Use Version Control

12. Use Ant as the Least Common Denominator

13. Use zipfileset

14. Perform the Clean Build Test

15. Avoid Platform-Specific Ant Wrappers

For more details on the above best practises you can visit

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/12/17/ant_bestpractices.html