Ant tasks for building and deploying applications and adapters

A set of Ant tasks is supplied with MobileFirst Server and the IBM MobileFirst™ Platform Command Line Interface. You can use them to build and deploy your applications, adapters, and projects.

IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation provides a set of Ant tasks that help you build and deploy adapters and applications to your MobileFirst Server. A typical use of these Ant tasks is to integrate them with a central build service that is called manually or periodically on a central build server.

Prerequisites

Before you can run Ant tasks, make sure that Apache Ant is installed. The minimum supported version of Ant is listed in System requirements.

Apache Ant 1.8.4 is included in MobileFirst Server. In the product_install_dir/shortcuts/ directory, the following scripts are provided.
  • For UNIX / Linux: ant
  • For Windows: ant.bat
These scripts are ready to run, which means that they do not require specific environment variables. If the JAVA_HOME environment variable is set, the scripts accept it.
Parent topic: Deploying MobileFirst applications to test and production environments