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Overview of the build utility

Note: For information about installing the build utility, refer to Installing Rational Application Developer Build Utility.

In the following example, we assume that the build utility was installed on Windows in the folder C:\IBM\BuildUtility.

The build utility includes a runAnt.bat file that can be used to invoke Ant in headless mode the same way as Application Developer does. The runAnt.bat file is located in the directory C:\IBM\BuildUtility\eclipse\bin.

When you invoke a build on a build server, typically you use Ant to create a workspace containing the projects before you build them. In the following example, we modify the Ant build script so that it first imports the projects into a new workspace and then builds them.

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