what is ANT ? .. pls ans... tmrw is my interview

[amit taneja]

Hi ranchers..
To be honest i want to make appeal to all of you, to help me . Tommorow morning ie after 10 hours is my Technical interview for a job in v.good IT company..

Can you pls all of you tell me

1. what is Ant ?
2. whats its advantage and why its use ?
3. pls tell me little bit Technically so that i should present that i have some knowledge of Ant...
so tell me something so that i can present that i have good idea of ANT
theoritically... and some bit technically..
i mean what is built.xml file ( i have heard about this from a frd)
and whats its purpose and what it will do.?

4. when we use ant tool
5. tell me what should i know about ant for interview..
( i have not written ant in my resueme but... candidates who have been interview today has been asked about it )...


pls reply asap..

Thanks in advance..
regards,
amit

[Bear Bibeault]

Cramming prior to an interview is unlikely to be of help. Best to be honest about what you do and do not know.

[Roseanne Zhang]

Ant is a small animal who can build magnificent buildings.

See picture here: http://ant.apache.org/
[ May 21, 2005: Message edited by: Roseanne Zhang ]

[amit taneja]

what a rediculus reply...Roseanne Zhang

[ May 23, 2005: Message edited by: amit taneja ]

[Carol Enderlin]

I thought it was hysterical.



She did give a link to the ant site.

I guess you can expect ridiculous responses to (in my opinion and apparently others as well) ridiculous requests for cram information for interviews.

[Thomas Paul]

You could take a look at the javaRanch Journal:

http://www.javaranch.com/newsletter/Mar2002/newslettermar2002.jsp#ant

[Roseanne Zhang]

Originally posted by amit taneja:
what a rediculus reply...Roseanne Zhang

Thanks for your nice comments on my "rediculus reply"!

Ant builds! Those were the key words!

ANT, what a smart name for a building tool, even the original author of ANT, James Duncan Davidson, meant "Another Neat Tool"