*Deprecated* See https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/VIVODOC/All+Documentation for current documentation

http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#sysrequirements

Ant has a built in diagnostics feature. If you run ant -diagnostics ant will look at its internal state and print it out.

Set environmental variables JAVA_HOME to your Java environment, ANT_HOME to the directory you uncompressed Ant to, and add ${ANT_HOME}/bin

From the ANT_HOME directory run ant -f fetch.xml -Ddest=system to get the library dependencies of most of the Ant tasks that require them. If you don't do this, many of the dependent Ant tasks will not be available.

Apache Ant 1.8.1 is now available for download as source or binary (with and without dependencies) from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi.
Key features of the 1.8.1 release are * new task augment allows to add attributes or nested elements to previously defined references * numerous bug fixes and improvements as documented in Bugzilla and in WHATSNEW

*Deprecated* See https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/VIVODOC/All+Documentation for current documentation