Desktop Application

Anteater Desktop is a graphical user interface (GUI) for running Anteater and developing recipes interactively. It provides the core workflow available from the CLI and adds desktop-focused tools for editing, running, and troubleshooting.

What you can do

  • Run recipes from a GUI
  • Edit recipes with an integrated editor
  • Monitor logs and troubleshoot runs

Getting started

If you're using the delivery pack, double-click anteater.jar to launch the application.

You can also start it from the command line:

java -jar anteater.jar

If you use a classpath definition, run the main class com.ganteater.ae.desktop.Anteater:

java -cp anteater.jar;plugins/*.jar com.ganteater.ae.desktop.Anteater

Running from Maven

To run Anteater Desktop within a Maven project, use the Maven plugin:

mvn ae:run