If you are already an Eclipse/Ant integration developer, check out the Development Resources.

The Ant component is designed to bring the power of Ant and Eclipse together. Ant is a Java based build tool. In theory it is kind of like make without make's wrinkles. It exists independent of Eclipse as an Apache open source project. Integrating Ant into Eclipse means:

• Executing Ant buildfiles from Eclipse
• Enabling access to Eclipse resources/function from Ant buildfiles (i.e., providing Ant tasks for Eclipse)
• Providing UI support for running Ant buildfiles and managing their output
• Providing Ant buildfile development facilities (e.g., buildfile editors, debuggers, ...)

The goal of this component is to make Eclipse's Ant tooling the environment of choice for Ant users and support Eclipse-based developers in their product build requirements.

Maintenance Efforts

• Fixes released to the 2.0.x branch
• Fixes released to the 2.1.x branch
• Fixes released to the 3.0.x branch
• Fixes released to the 3.1.x branch

3.1 Development Effort

• The overall 3.1 plan is posted here.
• The next milestone plan is posted here.

For more detailed information, check out the Development Resources.

If you are interested in participating in the development of the Ant component, check out the developer's mailing list: platform-ant-dev@eclipse.org. Chat with people there about your problems and interests, and find out what you can do to help.

In particular, if you have extensive experience using Ant, writing tasks or are in fact a committer on the Ant project, the Eclipse Ant integration component could use your help. Upcoming work ranges from basic integration to higher level tooling UI.

For more detailed information, check out the Development Resources.