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You may want to define build script using ant for your application. I will write about how to create ant script to run ant.

Step 1: define ant properties

XML Code:

<property name="src" value="./src" />
<property name="lib" value="./lib" />
<property name="classes" value="./classes" />
<property name="test.class.name" value="com.xyz.MyTestSuite" />

Step 2: set CLASSPATH to be used by JUnit

XML Code:

<path id="test.classpath">
<pathelement location="${classes}" />
<pathelement location="/path/to/junit.jar" /><fileset dir="${lib}">
<include name="**/*.jar"/>
</fileset>
</path>

Step 3: define the ant task for running JUnit

XML Code:

<target name="test">
<junit fork="yes" haltonfailure="yes">
<test name="${test.class.name}" />
<formatter type="plain" usefile="false" />
<classpath refid="test.classpath" />
</junit>
</target>

Step 4: run the test

Java Code:

ant test