What are Core Ant tasks ?

File Tasks

<copy>

<concat>

<delete>

<filter>

<fixcrlf>

<get>

<mkdir>

<move>

<replace>

<sync>

<tempfile>

<touch>

Compile Tasks

<javac> 

Compiles the specified source file(s) within the running (Ant) VM, or in another VM if the fork attribute is specified.

<apt>  

Runs the annotation processor tool (apt), and then optionally compiles the original code, and any generated source code.

<rmic>  

Runs the rmic compiler

Archive Tasks

<zip>, <unzip> Creates a zipfile.

<jar>, <unjar> Jars a set of files.

<war>, <unwar> An extension of the Jar task with special treatment web archive dirs

<ear> An extension of the Jar task with special treatment enterprise archive dirs.

Testing Tasks

<junit>  

Runs tests from the JUnit testing framework.

<junitreport> 

Merges the individual XML files generated by the Junit task and applies a stylesheet on the resulting merged document to provide a browsable report of the testcases results.

Property Tasks

<dirname> Sets a property to the value excluding the last path element.

<loadfile> Loads a file into a property.

<propertyfile> Creates or modifies property files.

<uptodate> Sets a property if a given target file is newer than a set of source files.

Miscellaneous Tasks

<echo> Echoes text to System.out or to a file.

<javadoc> Generates code documentation using the javadoc tool.

<sql> Executes a series of SQL statements via JDBC to a database.

Statements can either be read in from a text file using the src attribute, or from between the enclosing SQL tags.