Apache Ant version 1.7 is included with the IDE Server. This version of Ant has been modified to work on OpenVMS.
The logical IDE$ANT_HOME points to the root directory of the Ant files for OpenVMS. This directory contains the command procedure IDE_ANT.COM. If you define a symbol that points to this command procedure, you can issue Ant commands to DCL.
For example:
$
@sys$manager:java$150_setup fast
$ ant :== @ide$ant_home:ide_ant.com
$ ant "-version"
Apache Ant version 1.7 compiled on january 2012
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