= Platform Deployment Build Ant =
Apache Ant is integrated in Maven using maven-ant-plugin, so there is goal in Maven named ant. You have two options which are ant:ant and ant:clean.
 * executing '''mvn ant:ant''' Maven create build.xml files which can be used by Ant later
 * executing '''mvn:clean''' removes the created build.xml files if there are any.
Here are some instructions and examples for maven-ant-plugin: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-ant-plugin/
Good tutorial to get into Apache Ant: http://supportweb.cs.bham.ac.uk/docs/tutorials/docsystem/build/tutorials/ant/ant.html [[BR]]
You must follow the steps explained in [wiki:PLATFORM_INFRASTRUCTURE_OVERVIEW#ApacheAnt] page to have Ant installed on your machine.
Now you can build the project using Ant with the commands 'ant ' +:
 * clean - remove all artifact files
 * test - run the test(when a test failed, the build failed too)
 Note: for running the tests with Ant you have to add in ant lib directory junit.jar package (download: http://open.ncsu.edu/se/tutorials/junit/files/junit.jar)
 * compile - compile the Java source code to class files
 * package - package the project(not yet configured)

= Comments =
 * The page with the description of Ant installation does not exist. --boyan@2009-02-02