The Antlion experiment separates the Antlion concerns into three categories:

• Libraries handle external files that a project has dependencies on.
• Artifacts represent files created by a project, that get published or used by other projects.
• Subprojects indicate what other projects a project depends upon.

These three categories naturally have dependencies upon one another, but can be used independently.

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To use the basic Antlion, you must meet the following requirements:

• JDK 1.2 or higher. This is also required by Ant 1.6.
• Ant version 1.6.0 or higher. Ant includes many different optional libraries, and Antlion contains several dependencies upon these:
  • ant.jar (this is the core Ant library)
  • ant-nodeps.jar (Doesn't require any external dependencies. This is only needed if you plan on using the Proxy capabilities of the Maven repository.)
  • ant-apache-bsf.jar (only needed if you use the <script> processor. See the Ant documentation on <library dependencies> for information on this jar file's external dependencies)