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CTL for Ant by Example
Welcome to the CTL for Ant users cookbook! In these pages we hope to show you a number of practical examples addressing the issues you will face when using CTL and Ant outside the build arena.
Other documents that are useful to new CTL users:
- Download CTL - Get and install the CTL software
- CTL in 5 minutes - Brief getting started guide.
- Perspective - Ant and CTL programming perspectives.
- Writing a module - Writing a module with ProjectBuilder
- Ant in the 'hood - CTL's support for Ant
This cookbook is underway and has a good start but we're continuing to
expand it. Your input is most important! So feel free to drop a line
and help steer it in the right direction.
The table below shows a list of topics relevant to the automation of deployment and management of applications.
| Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| File distribution | Distribute and synchronize files. |
| Process management | Check process status, stop and start system processes. |
| Remote execution | Execute commands across the network. |
| Parallel execution | Execute commands in parallel |
| Error handling | Declare various courses of action when an error occurs. |
| Command options | "Soft code" your commands by define command options and attributes. |
| Coordination | Coordination commands across a set of modules and objects. |