15 Best Practices in Ant

Following are some of the best practices in Ant which are posted in 'OnJava'...

1. Adopt Consistent Style Conventions
2. Put build.xml in the Project Root Directory
3. Prefer a Single Buildfile
4. Provide Good Help
5. Provide a Clean Target
6. Manage Dependencies Using Ant
7. Define and Reuse Paths
8. Define Proper Target Dependencies
9. Use Properties for Configurability
10. Keep the Build Process Self-Contained
11. Use Version Control
12. Use Ant as the Least Common Denominator
13. Use zipfileset
14. Perform the Clean Build Test
15. Avoid Platform-Specific Ant Wrappers
    
    

For more details on the above best practises you can visit

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/12/17/ant_bestpractices.html