

For the purpose of this tutorial, I will be using Apache Ant binary file in zip format.Īpache Tomcat is an open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. At the time of writing this article, the latest stable Ant version was 1.9.4. Let us download the latest version from the project download page. More generally, Ant can be used to pilot any type of process which can be described in terms of targets and tasks. Ant can also be used effectively to build non Java applications, for instance C or C++ applications. Ant supplies a number of built-in tasks allowing to compile, assemble, test and run Java applications. The main known usage of Ant is the build of Java applications. Install Apache AntĪpache Ant is a Java library and command-line tool whose mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other. The installation method for Apache Ant, Maven and Tomcat are almost same, and very easy.

To install Java JDK on CentOS, RHEL, Scientific Linux, refer the following link. Prerequisitesīefore installing the Apache siblings, make sure you have installed Java JDK on your system. The same steps should work on all RPM based distributions such as RHEL/Scientific Linux 7/6.x, and Fedora. These three siblings can be used while building Java based applications. In this tutorial, let me show you how to install Apache siblings such as Ant, Maven, and Tomcat on CentOS 7 and 6.5 server.
