Platform Deployment Build Ant

Apache Ant is integrated in Maven using maven-ant-plugin, so there is goal in Maven named ant. You have two options which are ant:ant and ant:clean.

• executing mvn ant:ant Maven create build.xml files which can be used by Ant later
• executing mvn:clean removes the created build.xml files if there are any.

Here are some instructions and examples for maven-ant-plugin: ​http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-ant-plugin/ Good tutorial to get into Apache Ant: ​http://supportweb.cs.bham.ac.uk/docs/tutorials/docsystem/build/tutorials/ant/ant.html
You must follow the steps explained in PLATFORM_INFRASTRUCTURE_OVERVIEW page to have Ant installed on your machine. Now you can build the project using Ant with the commands 'ant ' +:

• clean - remove all artifact files
• test - run the test(when a test failed, the build failed too) Note: for running the tests with Ant you have to add in ant lib directory junit.jar package (download: ​http://open.ncsu.edu/se/tutorials/junit/files/junit.jar)
• compile - compile the Java source code to class files
• package - package the project(not yet configured)

Comments

• The page with the description of Ant installation does not exist. --boyan@2009-02-02