• Ant

Ant

We use Ant 1.7

Module Build File

Each module must include an Ant build.xml file capable of building the entire module. However the code should be organised to be compilable from IDEA as well as Ant.

The build.xml file must include the following targets:

• all (default target)

  • Must depend on release. If the module contains anything not distributed with release target that must be build as well. As a rule of thumb this target should "do what I need".

• clean

  • Delete all compiled Java classes

• compile

  • Compile all Java classes. Compiled classes should go into the classes/ directory.

• distclean

  • Restore module to Subversion status - ie. remove all non version controlled files

• doc

  • Compile Java doc and other documentation.

• jar

  • Roll .jar file(s) from compiled classes. Compiled jar files should go into the lib/ directory.

• release

  • Compile a module release as specified in the [:ModuleReleaseStructure: module release structure]. This target must depend on distclean, release.bin, release.doc, and release.src

• release.bin

  • Create a binary release. Distribution packages should go into the dist/ directory. See [:ModuleReleaseStructure: module release structure].

• release.doc

  • Create a Javadoc distribution of the module. Distribution packages should go into the dist/ directory. See [:ModuleReleaseStructure: module release structure].

• release.src

  • Create a source distribution of the module. Distribution packages should go into the dist/ directory. See [:ModuleReleaseStructure: module release structure].

• test

  • Run all unit tests

Global Project Build File

At some point (when we want to make releases) we need a global project Ant file. The specification of this has been punted for now.