Ant in Jdeveloper!

Hi! Can anyone give me an tutorial about Ant in Jdeveloper? And explain how app. developers work with ant and why?
Best regards, Debuger!

hi Debuger
Debuger wrote:
... And there is some tutorial ojdeploy + ANT? ...Maybe the documentation section "2.5 Deploying Using Scripts and Ant " can help
at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E21764_01/web.1111/e15470/deploy.htm#ADFAG20592
(No, I am not trying to be cynical by referring you to the "half page documentation effort " that Oracle has put into this.)
success
Jan Vervecken

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This bug has been fixed for the Production Release. There is no workaround in the Preview Release. However, these errors should only appear while editing the Ant buildfile. They should not prevent you from running the buildfile.
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