Ant用Java的類來擴展。（用戶）不必編寫shell命令，配置文件是基於XML的，通過調用target樹，就可執行各種task。每個task由實現了壹個實現了特定Task接口的對象來運行。
ant配置例子
<project name="MyProject" default="dist" basedir=".">
<!-- set global properties for this build -->
<property name="src" value="."/>
<property name="build" value="build"/>
<property name="dist" value="dist"/>
<target name="init">
<!-- Create the time stamp -->
<tstamp/>
<!-- Create the build directory structure used by compile -->
<mkdir dir="${build}"/>
</target>
<target name="compile" depends="init">
<!-- Compile the java code from ${src} into ${build} -->
<javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${build}"/>
</target>
<target name="dist" depends="compile">
<!-- Create the distribution directory -->
<mkdir dir="${dist}/lib"/>
<!-- Put everything in ${build} into the MyProject-${DSTAMP}.jar file -->
<jar jarfile="${dist}/lib/MyProject-${DSTAMP}.jar" basedir="${build}"/>
</target>
<target name="clean">
<!-- Delete the ${build} and ${dist} directory trees -->
<delete dir="${build}"/>
<delete dir="${dist}"/>
</target>
</project>