about Ant

[sireesha]

Hi Every One,
I am learning Spring and Hibernate. But when i saw tutorial for those topics i noticed that they are using Ant in that.I have downloaded Ant1.7.0.I have some doubts about it.
1.What is the use of Ant ?
2.How to know its working or not ?
3.Do i need to write any special files to work with ant ?
For example, i have some folder Project1 with some files like
Helloworld1.java and HelloWorld2.java
In this situation how to work with ant.
Can any one please help me in understanding this.

Thank q very much,
sireesha.

[gogoc]

Apache Ant is a software tool for automating software build processes. It is similar to make but is written in the Java language, requires the Java platform, and is best suited to building Java projects.

[sireesha]

Hi,
I have installed ant.After that when i tried to run ant command at command line like

Code:

C:\>ant

then i got an error like below

Code:

Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in E:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.
0_05\lib\tools.jar
Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!
Build failed

Can anybody tell me what's wrong ?

Thank q very much,
sireesha.

[gogoc]

you need to provide a build file to and which tells ant what to do
check this out
sorry i cant post link yet