Ant - the difference between the task and the goal

Question

I am new to Ant and have difficulty understanding some of its basic things, such as taskand target.

Online documentation and books say that targetthis is the stage of the entire assembly process, and that taskis the smallest part of the work. However, it’s very difficult for me to understand what exactly is meant by this,

Can someone explain in detail with examples of examples targetand taskin Ant?

Answer 1

Goals contain one or more tasks.

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Ant :

<target name="compile">
    <mkdir dir="build/classes"/>
    <javac srcdir="src" destdir="build/classes"/>
</target>

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• ( mkdir)

• 1, javac

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Answer 2

, ant ( ), . , ant , ant [options] [target]. , , (build.xml).

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(, ) . , <target> description. , / build.xml. .