How to do clean and build in eclipse using Ant

Question

Is it possible to do clean and build a project using ant in eclipse

Answer 1

In addition of the answer from Wing C. Chen, if you are looking for a way to interact with eclipse from ant, this may help you: Ant tasks provided by the platform.

There you can find some task to interact with the platform, like one to cause eclipse to do an incremental build.

Answer 2

You can execute any ant "target" in eclipse. Open then the build.xml, click the "outline" view, and you will see the targets listed in green bubble from. Right-click the one that you would like to run, select "run as", and then "ant build". You should be able to run the target up already.