Ant Project Files

The Explorer window's Filesystem tab displays the following Ant nodes:
Ant project. Expand an Ant project node to see the targets defined by the project. You can edit an Ant project as an XML file by right-clicking the project and choosing Open.
Ant target. Expand a target to reveal individual tasks.
Ant target with a description. These targets are more visible to the user. For example, running ant -projecthelp at the command line shows these targets first.
Ant task.
Data structure.
A project with an XML parse error.
A data structure that is out of place. To see a tooltip with an explanation of the error, place your pointer over the file node.

You can view and edit Ant scripts not stored in a directory (for example, in a JAR or ftp filesystem) if the filesystem supports it. However, you cannot run these scripts. This is a restriction of Ant itself, it does not understand the IDE's special filesystems.

Building With Ant

Creating and Running an Ant Project
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