Availability

Images for linux/arm64 and linux/amd64 are built on Alpine using OpenJDK 8, available at ecivis/ant-builder.

Usage

Standalone

To execute Apache Ant as a standalone process in a container, mount a project workspace with a build.xml to be processed and specify a build target.

docker run -v $PWD:/project ecivis/ant-builder:1.9.8

The standard command line options for may be provided as needed:

docker run -v $PWD:/project ecivis/ant-builder:1.9.8 -Dbuild=73 -Dcommit=fd16d0d06d -f build/special.xml clean build archive

Multi-stage Build

The Ant builder can be used in a multi-stage image build to retrieve an artifact from its overlay filesystem.

FROM docker.io/ecivis/ant-builder:1.9.8 AS ant
COPY build.xml ./
COPY src ./src/
RUN ant dist

FROM tomcat:9
# ...
COPY --from=ant /project/dist/app.war /usr/local/tomcat/webapps