Run ant from Java

Question

Is there a tutorial on how to run Ant from Java? I got some code from here: Setting JAVA_HOME when running Ant from Java

But haven\'t been able to make it work. I\'v

Answer 1

Is there a tutorial on how to run Ant from Java?

Part of my answer to this question might help:

See this article and this article:

   File buildFile = new File("build.xml");
   Project p = new Project();
   p.setUserProperty("ant.file", buildFile.getAbsolutePath());
   p.init();
   ProjectHelper helper = ProjectHelper.getProjectHelper();
   p.addReference("ant.projectHelper", helper);
   helper.parse(p, buildFile);
   p.executeTarget(p.getDefaultTarget());