Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:
...but is it worth spending time learning ANT
It really depends on what you want to use it for. I only use Ant as a compile/jar tool. The great thing about Ant is that it is very easy to learn a task if you already know some xml basics. I used Thomas Paul's
newsletter article to learn the basics of Ant. It was very quick and very easy to learn. Once you have the basics down, you will only need to learn the tasks that you plan on using. Each task has a few configuration options and is pretty easy to learn.