All the main Java IDEs ship with Ant, products such as Eclipse, NetBeans and IntelliJ IDEA. If you install Ant this wayyou usually get the most recent release of Ant at the time the IDE was released. Some of the IDEs (Eclipse and NetBeansin particular) ship with extra tasks that only work if IDE-specific tools are on Ant's path. To use these oncommand-line versions of Ant, the relevant JARs need to be added to the command-line Ant as extra libraries/tasks. Notethat if it is an IDE task or extension that is not behaving, the Ant team is unable to field bug reports. Try the IDEmailing lists first, who will cross-file bugs if appropriate.