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Looking for a better on-line manual

 
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I downloaded ANT and looked at the on-line Manual they provide, but they assume too much for my limited noodle.
For example, they talk about targets and what properties targets can have but they don't tell me what the heck targets are.
So I am looking for a bit more informative tutorial or manual on-line so that I can better determine whether ANT has a place in my programming world or not.
 
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I did a search on google with the keywords ANT and tutorial. I ended up with about 45,000 hits. Some of the hits were a bit dated. Others were of questionable quality but, I didn't examine all 45,000 hits
It was very interesting to find that many hits. I was expecting to at most a few hundred. Certainlly not a number in the thousands or even tens of thousands.
 
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The concepts of Ant scripts (such as targets and tasks) should be relatively simple to learn from a good article, supplemented by experimenting with a simple "hello world" type of build script.
I found this link from my bookmarks. I think it does a pretty good job on explaining the basic concepts. http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/989631
And, as Kirk said, if that doesn't suit you, there are 10,000s more available through Google...
 
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