22.4 Deploying Applications Using Ant

You can also use Ant to package and deploy applications. The build.xml file, which contains the deployment commands for Ant, may vary depending on the target application server.

For deployment to Oracle Application Server using Ant, see the chapter "Deploying with the OC4J Ant Tasks" in the Oracle Containers for J2EE Deployment Guide. This chapter provides complete details on how to use Ant to deploy to Oracle Application Server. Oracle provides Ant tasks that are specific to Oracle Application Server.

For deployment to other application servers, see the application server's documentation. If your application server does not provide specific Ant tasks, you may be able to use generic Ant tasks. For example, the generic ear task creates an EAR file for you.

For information about Ant, see http://ant.apache.org.