About Building Web Applications

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The IDE uses an Ant build script to build your web applications. If you are using a , the IDE generates the build script based on the options you enter in the project's Project Properties dialog box. You can set the project's classpath, context path, and web server in the Project Properties dialog box. You can further customize program execution by editing the Ant script and Ant properties for the project.

If you are using a , the IDE uses your existing Ant script to build your project. You can write a target that builds the currently selected project in the IDE and map it to the Build Project command.

With standard web projects, you can customize the build process by doing any of the following:

See Also
Building Tasks: Quick Reference
Working with Builds
Building a Project
Compiling a Single File

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