title: Generating Ant build.xml automatically
body: <p>I have an existing J2EE project which is very big and old. Therefore, my current building process is to open eclipse, file/export, and clic on War archive.</p>
  
  <p>While our company turn over is as fast as new build is needed, we have to create an automated process. However, I'm searching the fastest way to automate building. I'm first looking to Maven2, but our application has a JDK1.4, which is lesser than the minimum 1.5.</p>
  
  <p>I was looking to Maven1, but after some weirds bugs and some reading, it seems to be only an overlay to Ant. Why I'm not using directly Ant?</p>
  
  <p>Here we are, I'm looking at Ant documentation and try to writing build.xml but it seems to be too much arduous with my big project. For god's sake, when I clic to Export/War, <strong>Eclipse do the job</strong>. Why I can't in the simplest way, reproduce or export the way Eclipse export the war file, into a build.xml or what else?</p>
  
  <p>Some tools which convert <em>Eclipse-metadata</em> into <em>ant-build.xml</em> should exists. But does anyone know them ?</p>