Apache Ant is a powerful way to convert your developmental structures to deployment structures. It is declarative and all the command line tasks used for deploying an application are represented by simple XML elements. Without much details, this tutorial would breeze you through the steps on how to build a web application using a single XML build file and nothing else. If you have not yet understood what is the use of Ant, read my article on Development and Deployment Structures – the perfect way to build web applications.

I would use the same analogy of my development structure as mentioned in the above linked article i.e. my development structure consists of the following directories:
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