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<properties>
<author email="conor@cortexebusiness.com.au">Conor MacNeill</author>
<author email="stefan.bodewig@epost.de">Stefan Bodewig</author>
<title>Ant News</title>
</properties>

<body>

<section name="Ant Needs a Logo">
<p>Ant still doesn't have a Logo, but it sure deserves one. We've
put together a <a href="logos.html">page with proposed
logos</a>, please take a look at them and tell us what you
think. If you have a nice logo idea yourself, just submit it to
the mailing lists.</p>
</section>

<section name="Ant 2.0 Requirements Collected - Next is Design">
<p>A commented version of the collected user requirements is now
available <a href="/ant/ant2/features.html">here</a> - it is not
complete as some details still have to be defined, but it should
give you an idea of what Ant2 is going to look like.</p>

<p>Several details can only be decided in the light of real code
and prototypes. Several people are working on prototypes (that
can be found in Ant's CVS module in the proposals directory) and
discussion is going on on the Ant-Dev mailing list.</p>
</section>

<section name="Best-Practices Profile of Ant at Sun&apos;s Dot-Com Builder">
<p>Sun has released an introductory article on Ant on their
Dot-Com Builder site on May&#160;30&#160;2001. See <a
href="http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp">http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp</a></p>
</section>

<section name="Ant 2.0 Requirements">
<p>Ant has been in use for quite some time and has been used in ways never conceived when it
was originally written. While Ant 1.x has continued to sucessfully evolve and grow, there
are a number of limitations and inconsistencies that are now apparent and which need to
be addressed.
</p>
<p>
As we continue to evolve and enhance Ant 1.x, it is now time to define what Ant 2.0 will
encompass. Ant 2.0 will be a major rearchitecting of Ant. It has a number of goals including:
<ul>
<li>Define the "contract" with build file writers to which Ant will be bound.</li>
<li>Define the "contract" between the Ant core and Task writers.</li>
<li>Make Ant more easily extendable by allowing additional tasks to be "dropped" in.</li>
<li>Allow Ant to function as a component to simplify integration with GUIs and IDEs.</li>
<li>Make Ant more regular and logical.</li>
</ul>
It is expected that Ant 2.0 will break Ant 1.x based build files. The intention is to
make this the last time that will happen.
</p>
<p>
To advance the definition of Ant, user requirements are now being accepted on the
Ant-Dev mailing list. Any requirement will be accepted for consideration. The
requirements are being collected into a document which is available
<a href="/ant/ant2/requested-features.txt">on-line</a>. New features will be excepted
until March 21st, 2001. At that time, each requirement will be discussed
for inclusion in an Ant 2.0 requirement document.
</p>
<p>
For your reference some of the goals which have shaped the development of Ant 1.x are
available <a href="/ant/ant2/original-specification.html">here</a>. These continue to be
relevant to Ant 2.0.
</p>
<p>
If you want to shape the future of Ant, join the
<a href="/site/mail.html">Ant-Dev mailing list</a> and contribute
your ideas.
</p>
</section>

<section name="Ant 1.3 Released">

<p>
Ant 1.3 has been released after going through three betas. Thanks to everyone who
took the time to test the beta and report bugs and enhancements.
</p>
<p>You can download the release from
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/release/v1.3/">here</a>.
Both source and binary releases are available in zip, tarball and RPM formats.
</p>
<p>Please report all bugs using the
<a href="http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Ant">Apache Bugzilla</a>
</p>

</section>

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<document>

<properties>
<author email="bodewig@apache.org">Stefan Bodewig</author>
<title>External Tools and Tasks</title>
</properties>

<body>
<section name="External Tools and Tasks">

<p>This page lists external resources for Ant: tasks, IDE
integration tools, loggers, you name it. If you've written
something that should be included, please post all relevant
information to one of the mailing lists.</p>

<p>Nothing listed here is directly supported by the Ant
developers, if you encounter any problems with them, please use
the contact information.</p>

</section>

<section name="Tasks">
<subsection name="AJC">

<p><a href="http://aspectj.org">AspectJ</a> is an
aspect-oriented extension to Java. This task compiles a
source tree using the AspectJ compiler -- AJC.</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Compatibility:</th>
<td>Ant 1.3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://aspectj.org/dl">http://aspectj.org/dl</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Contact:</th>
<td><a href="mailto:support@aspectj.org">support@aspectj.org</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>License:</th>
<td>Apache Software License</td>
</tr>
</table>
</subsection>

<subsection name="Anakia">

<p>Actually, Anakia is more than just an Ant task, it is a an
XML transformation tool based on JDOM, Velocity and Ant.</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Compatibility:</th>
<td>Ant 1.2 and 1.3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/anakia.html">http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/anakia.html</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Contact:</th>
<td><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html">Velocity mailing lists</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>License:</th>
<td>Apache Software License</td>
</tr>
</table>
</subsection>

<subsection name="Checkstyle">

<p>Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write
Java code that adheres to a coding standard. Its purpose is to
automate the process of checking Java code, and to spare
humans of this boring (but important) task.</p>

<p>Checkstyle can be run via an ANT task or a command line
utility.</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Compatibility:</th>
<td>Ant 1.2 and 1.3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://www.puppycrawl.com/checkstyle">http://www.puppycrawl.com/checkstyle</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Contact:</th>
<td><a href="mailto:checkstyle@puppycrawl.com">Oliver Burn</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>License:</th>
<td>GNU General Public License</td>
</tr>
</table>
</subsection>

<subsection name="Configure">

<p>Recursive build support (call ant on every package level,
and only build files in that package or in that package and
everything below) with seperation of source and output.</p>
<p>The task generates build files in any subdirectory (except
for CVS-directories) for you. Only place one build.xml file in
the top and call target &apos;setup&apos; or
&apos;rescan&apos;.</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Compatibility:</th>
<td>Ant 1.2 and 1.3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://www.dsdelft.nl/~lemval/ant/">http://www.dsdelft.nl/~lemval/ant/</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Contact:</th>
<td><a href="mailto:lemval@dsdelft.nl">M.J.P. van Leeuwen</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>License:</th>
<td>License derived from Apache Software License</td>
</tr>
</table>
</subsection>

<subsection name="J2ME Ant Tasks">

<p>There are two different sets of tasks to help build <a
href="http://java.sun.com/j2me/">Java 2 Platform, Micro
Edition</a> (J2ME) applications.</p>
<p>This set supports CLDC and the K Virtual Machine (KVM):</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Compatibility:</th>
<td>Ant 1.3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://www.dribin.org/dave/j2me_ant/">http://www.dribin.org/dave/j2me_ant/</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Contact:</th>
<td><a href="mailto:drib@enteract.com">Dave Dribin</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>License:</th>
<td>Apache Software License</td>
</tr>
</table>

<p>And this set works with the J2ME Wireless Toolkit and MIDP
for PalmOS:</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Compatibility:</th>
<td>Ant 1.3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://www.stampysoft.com/ant/">http://www.stampysoft.com/ant/</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Contact:</th>
<td><a href="mailto:jeckels@stampysoft.com">Josh Eckels</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>License:</th>
<td>MIT License</td>
</tr>
</table>

</subsection>

<subsection name="TiniAnt">

<p>TiniAnt is an Ant task to support building applications for
the <a href="http://www.ibutton.com/TINI/">TINI</a>.</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Compatibility:</th>
<td>Ant 1.2 and 1.3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://tiniant.sourceforge.net/">http://tiniant.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Contact:</th>
<td><a href="mailto:kelly@ad1440.net">Sean Kelly</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>License:</th>
<td>BSD-like license</td>
</tr>
</table>
</subsection>

<subsection name="Venus Application Publisher's (Vamp) Ant Task Suite">

<p>Venus Application Publisher's (Vamp) Ant Task Suite allows
you to sign and package your applications into relocatable Web
Archives that you can drop into your web server for
single-click launching using Java Web Start or into single
Java Archive installers that serve up their content through a
built-in, multi-threaded, ultra light-weight web server.</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Compatibility:</th>
<td>Ant 1.2 and 1.3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://www.geocities.com/vamp201/ant.html">http://www.geocities.com/vamp201/ant.html</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Contact:</th>
<td><a href="mailto:vamp201@yahoo.com">Gerald Bauer</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>License:</th>
<td>GNU General Public License</td>
</tr>
</table>
</subsection>

</section>

<section name="IDE/Editor Integration">

<subsection name="AntRunner">

<p>An OpenTool that integrates Ant into the JBuilder IDE.</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Compatibility:</th>
<td>Ant 1.2 and 1.3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://www.dieter-bogdoll.de/java/AntRunner/">http://www.dieter-bogdoll.de/java/AntRunner/</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Contact:</th>
<td><a href="mailto:bogdoll@users.sourceforge.net">Dieter Bogdoll</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>License:</th>
<td>GNU General Public License</td>
</tr>
</table>
</subsection>

<subsection name="AntWork">

<p>A plugin that integrates Ant into the Jext editor.</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Compatibility:</th>
<td>Ant 1.2 and 1.3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="ftp://jext.sourceforge.net/pub/jext/plugins/AntWork.zip">ftp://jext.sourceforge.net/pub/jext/plugins/AntWork.zip</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Contact:</th>
<td><a href="mailto:KHartlage@t-online.de">Klaus Hartlage</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>License:</th>
<td>GNU General Public License</td>
</tr>
</table>
</subsection>

<subsection name="NetBeans / Forte for Java">

<p>A module that integrates Ant into the NetBeans or Forte for Java IDEs.</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Compatibility:</th>
<td>bundles Ant 1.3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://ant.netbeans.org/">http://ant.netbeans.org/</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Contact:</th>
<td><a href="mailto:nbdev@netbeans.org">nbdev@netbeans.org</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>License:</th>
<td>Sun Public License</td>
</tr>
</table>
</subsection>
</section>

<section name="Other">
<subsection name="CruiseControl">
<p>CruiseControl is a tool for setting up a continuous build
process. CruiseControl provides an Ant wrapper and a set of
tasks to automate the checkout/build/test cycle. CruiseControl
also comes bundled with a servlet for viewing the status of
the current build, as well as previous build results.</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Compatibility:</th>
<td>Ant 1.2 and 1.3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/">http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Contact:</th>
<td><a href ='http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/contact.html'>Project Mailing Lists and Administrators</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>License:</th>
<td>Release 1.0 has been licensed under the GNU General Public
License. Starting with release 1.1 the license has been
changed to a BSD-like license.</td>
</tr>
</table>
</subsection>
</section>

</body>
</document>

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<properties>
<author email="bodewig@apache.org">Stefan Bodewig</author>
<title>Frequently Asked Questions</title>
</properties>

<faqsection title="General">
<faq id="what-is-ant">
<question>What is Ant?</question>
<answer>
<p> Ant is a Java based build tool. In theory it is kind of
like &quot;make&quot; without makes wrinkles and with the full
portability of pure Java code.</p>
</answer>
</faq>

<faq id="ant-name">
<question>Why do you call it Ant?</question>
<answer>

<p>According to Ant&apos;s original author James Duncan
Davidson, the name is an acronym for &quot;Another Neat
Tool&quot;.</p>
<p>Later explanations go along the lines of &quot;Ants are
doing an extremely good job at building things&quot; or
&quot;Ants are very small and can carry a weight a dozen times
of their own&quot; - describing what Ant is intended to
be.</p>
</answer>
</faq>

<faq id="history">
<question>Tell us a little bit about Ant&apos;s history.</question>
<answer>

<p>Initially Ant was part of the Tomcat code base when it was
donated to the Apache Software Foundation - it has been
created by James Duncan Davidson, who also is the original
author of Tomcat. Ant was there to build Tomcat, nothing
else.</p>

<p>Soon thereafter several open source Java projects realized
that Ant could solve the problems they had with makefiles.
Starting with the projects hosted at Jakarta and the old Java
Apache project, Ant spread like a virus and now is the build
tool of choice for a lot of projects.</p>

<p>In January 2000 Ant was moved to a separate CVS module and
was promoted to a project of its own, independent of
Tomcat.</p>

<p>The first version of Ant that was exposed a lager audience
was the one that shipped with Tomcat&apos;s 3.1 release on 19 April
2000. This version has later been referenced to as Ant
0.3.1.</p>

<p>The first official release of Ant as a stand alone product was
Ant 1.1 released on 19 July 2000. The complete release
history:</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Ant Version</th>
<th>Release Date</th>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>1.1</td>
<td>19 July 2000</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>1.2</td>
<td>24 October 2000</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>1.3</td>
<td>3 March 2001</td>
</tr>
</table>
</answer>
</faq>

</faqsection>

<faqsection title="Installation">
<faq id="no-gnu-tar">
<question>I get checksum errors when I try to extract the
<code>tar.gz</code> distribution file. Why?</question>
<answer>
<p>Ant&apos;s distribution contains file names that are longer
than 100 characters, which is not supported by the standard
tar file format. Several different implementations of tar use
different and incompatible ways to work around this
restriction.</p>

<p>Ant&apos;s &lt;tar&gt; task can create tar archives that use
the GNU tar extension, and this has been used when putting
together the distribution. If you are using a different
version of tar (for example, the one shipping with Solaris),
you cannot use it to extract the archive.</p>

<p>The solution is to either install GNU tar, which can be
found <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html">here</a>
or use the zip archive instead (you can extract it using
<code>jar xf</code>).</p>
</answer>
</faq>
</faqsection>

<faqsection title="Using Ant">
<faq id="always-recompiles">
<question>Why does Ant always recompile all my Java files?</question>
<answer>

<p>In order to find out which files should be compiled, Ant
compares the timestamps of the source files to those of the
resulting <code>.class</code> files. Opening all source files
to find out which package they belong to would be very
inefficient - instead of this, Ant expects you to place your
source files in a directory hierarchy that mirrors your
package hierarchy and to point Ant to the root of this
directory tree with the <code>srcdir</code> attribute.</p>

<p>Say you have <code>&lt;javac srcdir=&quot;src&quot;
destdir=&quot;dest&quot; /&gt;</code>. If Ant finds a file
<code>src/a/b/C.java</code> it expects it to be in package
<code>a.b</code> so that the resulting <code>.class</code>
file is going to be <code>dest/a/b/C.class</code>.</p>

<p>If your setup is different, Ant&apos;s heuristic won&apos;t work and
it will recompile classes that are up to date. Ant is not the
only tool, that expects a source tree layout like this.</p>

</answer>
</faq>

<faq id="passing-cli-args">
<question>How do I pass parameters from the command line to my
build file?</question>
<answer>

<p>Use properties: <code>ant
-D&lt;name&gt;=&lt;value&gt;</code> lets you define values for
properties. These can then be used within your build file as
any normal property: <code>${&lt;name&gt;}</code> will put in
<code>&lt;value&gt;</code>.</p>

</answer>
</faq>

<faq id="jikes-switches">
<question>How can I use Jikes specific command line
switches?</question>

<answer>

<p>A couple of switches are supported via magic
properties:</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>switch</th>
<th>property</th>
<th>default</th>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>+E</td>
<td>build.compiler.emacs</td>
<td>false == not set</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>-nowarn</td>
<td>build.compiler.warnings</td>
<td>true == not set</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>+P</td>
<td>build.compiler.pedantic</td>
<td>false == not set</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>+F</td>
<td>build.compiler.fulldepend</td>
<td>false == not set</td>
</tr>
</table>

</answer>
</faq>

<faq id="shell-redirect-1">
<question>How do I include a &lt; character in my command line arguments?</question>
<answer>
<p>The short answer is "Use <code>&amp;lt;</code>".</p>

<p>The long answer is, that this probably won't do what you
want anyway, see <a href="#shell-redirect-2">the next
section</a>.</p>
</answer>
</faq>

<faq id="shell-redirect-2">
<question>How do I redirect standard input or standard output
in the <code>&lt;exec&gt;</code> task?</question>
<answer>
<p>Say you want to redirect the standard input stream of the
<code>cat</code> command to read from a file, something
like</p>

<source><![CDATA[
shell-prompt> cat < foo
]]></source>
<p>and try to translate it into</p>

<source><![CDATA[
<exec executable="cat">
<arg value="&lt;" />
<arg value="foo" />
</exec>
]]></source>

<p>This will not do what you expect. The input-redirection is
performed by your shell, not the command itself, so this
should read:</p>
<source><![CDATA[
<exec executable="/bin/sh">
<arg value="-c" />
<arg value="cat &lt; foo" />
</exec>
]]></source>

<p>Note, that you must use the <code>value</code> attribute of
<code>&lt;arg&gt;</code> in the last element.</p>

</answer>
</faq>

</faqsection>

<faqsection title="Ant and IDEs/Editors">
<faq id="integration">
<question>Is Ant supported by my IDE/Editor?</question>
<answer>
<p>See the <a href="external.html#IDE%47Editor+Integration">section
on IDE integration</a> on our external tools page.</p>
</answer>
</faq>

<faq id="emacs-mode">
<question>Why doesn&apos;t (X)Emacs/vi/MacOS X's project builder
parse the error messages generated by Ant correctly?</question>
<answer>

<p>Ant adds a &quot;banner&quot; with the name of the current
task in front of all messages - and there are no built-in
regular expressions in your Editor that would account for
this.</p>

<p>You can disable this banner by invoking Ant with the
<code>-emacs</code> switch. Alternatively you can add the
following snippet to your <code>.emacs</code> to make Emacs
understand Ant&apos;s output.</p>

<source><![CDATA[
(require 'compile)
(setq compilation-error-regexp-alist
(append (list
;; works for jikes
'("^\\s-*\\[[^]]*\\]\\s-*\\(.+\\):\\([0-9]+\\):\\([0-9]+\\):[0-9]+:[0-9]+:" 1 2 3)
;; works for javac
'("^\\s-*\\[[^]]*\\]\\s-*\\(.+\\):\\([0-9]+\\):" 1 2))
compilation-error-regexp-alist))
]]></source>

<p>Yet another alternative that preserves most of Ant's
formatting is to pipe Ant's output through the following Perl
script by Dirk-Willem van Gulik:</p>

<source><![CDATA[
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# May 2001 dirkx@apache.org - remove any
# [foo] lines from the output; keeping
# spacing more or less there.
#
$|=1;
while(<STDIN>) {
if (s/^(\s+)\[(\w+)\]//) {
if ($2 ne $last) {
print "$1\[$2\]";
$s = ' ' x length($2);
} else {
print "$1 $s ";
};
$last = $2;
};
print;
};
]]></source>

</answer>
</faq>
</faqsection>

<faqsection title="Advanced issues">
<faq id="dtd">
<question>Is there a DTD that I can use to validate my build
files?</question>

<answer>

<p>An incomplete DTD can be created by the
<code>&lt;antstructure&gt;</code> task - but this one
has a few problems:</p>

<ul>
<li>It doesn&apos;t know about required attributes. Only
manual tweaking of this file can help here.</li>
<li>It is not complete - if you add new tasks via
<code>&lt;taskdef&gt;</code> it won&apos;t know about it. See
<a href="http://www.sdv.fr/pages/casa/html/ant-dtd.en.html">this
page</a> by Michel Casabianca for a solution to this
problem. Note that the DTD you can download at this page
is based on Ant 0.3.1.</li>

<li>It may even be an invalid DTD. As Ant allows tasks
writers to define arbitrary elements, name collisions will
happen quite frequently - if your version of Ant contains
the optional <code>&lt;test&gt;</code> and
<code>&lt;junit&gt;</code> tasks, there are two XML
elements named test (the task and the nested child element
of <code>&lt;junit&gt;</code>) with different attribute
lists. This problem cannot be solved, DTDs don&apos;t give a
syntax rich enough to support this.</li>
</ul>
</answer>
</faq>

<faq id="xml-entity-include">
<question>How do I include an XML snippet in my build file?</question>
<answer>
<p>You can use XML&apos;s way of including external files and let
the parser do the job for Ant:</p>

<source><![CDATA[
<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!DOCTYPE project [
<!ENTITY common SYSTEM "file:./common.xml">
]>

<project name="test" default="test" basedir=".">

<target name="setup">
...
</target>

&common;

...

</project>
]]></source>

<p>will literally include the contents of <code>common.xml</code> where
you&apos;ve placed the <code>&amp;common;</code> entity.</p>

<p>In combination with a DTD, this would look like this:</p>

<source><![CDATA[
<!DOCTYPE project PUBLIC "-//ANT//DTD project//EN" "file:./ant.dtd" [
<!ENTITY include SYSTEM "file:./header.xml">
]>
]]></source>
</answer>
</faq>

<faq id="mail-logger">
<question>How do I send an email with the result of my build
process?</question>

<answer>

<p>You can use a custom BuildListener, that sends out an email
in the buildFinished() method. Will Glozer
&lt;will.glozer@jda.com&gt; has written such a listener based
on <a href="http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/">JavaMail</a>,
the source is</p>

<source><![CDATA[
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.mail.*;
import javax.mail.internet.*;
import org.apache.tools.ant.*;

/**
* A simple listener that waits for a build to finish and sends an email
* of the results. The settings are stored in "monitor.properties" and
* are fairly self explanatory.
*
* @author Will Glozer
* @version 1.05a 09/06/2000
*/
public class BuildMonitor implements BuildListener {
protected Properties props;

/**
* Create a new BuildMonitor.
*/
public BuildMonitor() throws Exception {
props = new Properties();
InputStream is = getClass().getResourceAsStream("monitor.properties");
props.load(is);
is.close();
}

public void buildStarted(BuildEvent e) {
}

/**
* Determine the status of the build and the actions to follow, now that
* the build has completed.
*
* @param e Event describing the build tatus.
*/
public void buildFinished(BuildEvent e) {
Throwable th = e.getException();
String status = (th != null) ? "failed" : "succeeded";
try {
String key = "build." + status;
if (props.getProperty(key + ".notify").equalsIgnoreCase("false")) {
return;
}
Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null);

MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(session);
message.addRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO, parseAddresses(
props.getProperty(key + ".email.to")));
message.setSubject(props.getProperty(key + ".email.subject"));

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(
props.getProperty("build.log")));
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
String line = br.readLine();
while (line != null) {
sw.write(line);
sw.write("\n");
line = br.readLine();
}
br.close();
message.setText(sw.toString(), "UTF-8");
sw.close();
Transport transport = session.getTransport();
transport.connect();
transport.send(message);
transport.close();
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println("BuildMonitor failed to send email!");
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}

/**
* Parse a comma separated list of internet email addresses.
*
* @param s The list of addresses.
* @return Array of Addresses.
*/
protected Address[] parseAddresses(String s) throws Exception {
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(s, ",");
Address[] addrs = new Address[st.countTokens()];

for (int i = 0; i < addrs.length; i++) {
addrs[i] = new InternetAddress(st.nextToken());
}
return addrs;
}

public void messageLogged(BuildEvent e) {
}

public void targetStarted(BuildEvent e) {
}

public void targetFinished(BuildEvent e) {
}

public void taskStarted(BuildEvent e) {
}

public void taskFinished(BuildEvent e) {
}
}
]]></source>
<p>With a <code>monitor.properties</code> like this</p>

<source><![CDATA[
# configuration for build monitor

mail.transport.protocol=smtp
mail.smtp.host=<host>
mail.from=Will Glozer <will.glozer@jda.com>

build.log=build.log

build.failed.notify=true
build.failed.email.to=will.glozer@jda.com
build.failed.email.subject=Nightly build failed!

build.succeeded.notify=true
build.succeeded.email.to=will.glozer@jda.com
build.succeeded.email.subject=Nightly build succeeded!
]]></source>

<p><code>monitor.properties</code> should be placed right next
to your compiled <code>BuildMonitor.class</code>. To use it,
invoke Ant like</p>
<source><![CDATA[
ant -listener BuildMonitor
]]></source>

<p>Make sure that <code>mail.jar</code> from JavaMail and
<code>activation.jar</code> from the
<a href="http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/glasgow/jaf.html">Java
Beans Activation Framework</a> in your <code>CLASSPATH</code>.</p>

</answer>
</faq>

</faqsection>

<faqsection title="Known problems">
<faq id="remove-cr">
<question>&lt;chmod&gt; or &lt;exec&gt; don&apos;t work in Ant
1.3 on Unix</question>
<answer>

<p>The <code>antRun</code> script in <code>ANT_HOME/bin</code>
has DOS instead of Unix line endings, you must remove the
carriage return characters from this file. This can be done by
using Ant&apos;s &lt;fixcrlf&gt; task or something like:</p>

<source><![CDATA[
tr -d '\r' < $ANT_HOME/bin/antRun > /tmp/foo
mv /tmp/foo $ANT_HOME/bin/antRun
]]></source>
</answer>
</faq>

<faq id="javadoc-cannot-execute">
<question>JavaDoc failed: java.io.IOException: javadoc: cannot execute</question>
<answer>
<p>There is a bug in the Solaris reference implementation of
the JDK, see <a href="http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4230399.html">http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4230399.html</a>.
This also appears to be true under Linux, moving the JDK to
the front of the PATH fixes the problem.</p>
</answer>
</faq>
</faqsection>

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<document>

<properties>
<author email="conor@cortexebusiness.com.au">Conor MacNeill</author>
<author email="stefan.bodewig@epost.de">Stefan Bodewig</author>
<title>Ant</title>
</properties>

<body>

<section name="Ant">

<p>
Ant is a Java based build tool. In theory it is kind of like make without
make's wrinkles.
</p>

<p>
Why another build tool when there is already make, gnumake, nmake, jam, and
others? Because all of those tools have limitations that Ant's original author
couldn't live with when developing software across multiple platforms. Make-like
tools are inherently shell based. They evaluate a set of dependencies and then
execute commands not unlike what you would issue on a shell. This means that you
can easily extend these tools by using or writing any program for the OS that
you are working on. However, this also means that you limit yourself to the OS,
or at least the OS type such as Unix, that you are working on.
</p>

<p>
Makefiles are inherently evil as well. Anybody who has worked on them for any
time has run into the dreaded tab problem. &quot;Is my command not executing
because I have a space in front of my tab!!!&quot; said the original author of
Ant way too many times. Tools like Jam took care of this to a great degree, but
still use yet another format to use and remember.
</p>

<p>
Ant is different. Instead of a model where it is extended with shell based
commands, it is extended using Java classes. Instead of writing shell commands,
the configuration files are XML based calling out a target tree where various
tasks get executed. Each task is run by an object which implements a particular
Task interface.
</p>

<p>
Granted, this removes some of the expressive power that is inherent by being
able to construct a shell command such as `find . -name foo -exec rm {}` but it
gives you the ability to be cross platform. To work anywhere and everywhere. And
hey, if you really need to execute a shell command, Ant has an exec rule that
allows different commands to be executed based on the OS that it is executing
on.
</p>

</section>
<section name="Documentation">
<p>
You can view the documentation for the most recent release
<a href="manual/index.html">online</a>
</p>

<p>
Comprehensive documentation is included in the source and binary distribtions.
</p>

</section>

<section name="Latest Release">
<p>
You can download the latest release:
</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/release/v1.3/bin/">
Download the binary release</a></li>
<li><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/release/v1.3/src/">
Download the source release</a></li>
<li><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/release/v1.3/rpms/">
Download source and binary RPMs</a></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section name="Nightly Builds">
<p>
If you wish to use the latest Ant features, you can try downloading a nightly
build from <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/nightly/">here</a>
</p>
</section>
<section name="Towards Ant2">
<p>
We are currently hashing out design details for Ant2. Please
read the latest <a href="antnews.html">Ant news</a> for more details.
</p>
</section>
<section name="Get Involved">
<ul>
<li><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/getinvolved/getinvolvedindex.html">Get Involved</a></li>
<li><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/getinvolved/mail.html">Join Mailing Lists</a></li>
<li><a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&amp;r=1&amp;w=2">Search the Dev Mailing List</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&amp;r=1&amp;w=2">Search the User Mailing List</a>
</li>
</ul>



</section>

</body>
</document>


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<document>

<properties>
<author email="stefan.bodewig@epost.de">Stefan Bodewig</author>
<title>Ant Logo Proposals</title>
</properties>

<body>

<section name="Ant needs a Logo">
<p>One of the requirements for Ant2 is, that Ant should have a
logo. You can find the logos that have been proposed to the Ant
mailing lists on this page.</p>

<p>Tell us what you think of them (yes, <em>Powered by</em> should
better be <em>Built by</em>).</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Author</th><th> </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Bill J. Fellows (Bill.J.Fellows at mail.sprint.com)</td>
<td><img src="images/antLogo1.png" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Bill J. Fellows (Bill.J.Fellows at mail.sprint.com)</td>
<td><img src="images/antLogo2.png" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Christoph Wilhelms (Christoph.Wilhelms at t-online.de)</td>
<td><img src="images/ant_logo.gif" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Christoph Wilhelms (Christoph.Wilhelms at t-online.de)</td>
<td><img src="images/ant2_logo.gif" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Warner Onstine (warner at warneronstine.com)</td>
<td><img src="images/ant-logo2.gif" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Chris Coleman (chris.coleman at csfb.com)</td>
<td><img src="images/coleman.gif" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Stefan Lecho (Stefan.Lecho at iconmedialab.com)</td>
<td><img src="images/lecho.jpg" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>David Trogdon (DTrogdon at orgtek.com)</td>
<td><img src="images/trogdon.gif" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mirko Klemm (Mirko.Klemm at t-online.de)</td>
<td><img src="http://www.mutantenzoo.de/antlogo-400.png" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ryan P Ripley (ryan.ripley at bms.com)</td>
<td><img src="images/ripley.jpg" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Christoph Wilhelms (Christoph.Wilhelms at t-online.de)</td>
<td><img src="images/wilhelms3.gif" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shane Petroff (shane at hayward.ca)</td>
<td><img src="images/petroff.jpg" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Jim Cheesman (jchees at msl.es)</td>
<td><img src="images/cheesman.jpg" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Kevin Duggins (Kevin.Duggins at definityhealth.com)</td>
<td><img src="images/duggins.gif" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Kevin Duggins (Kevin.Duggins at definityhealth.com)</td>
<td><img src="images/duggins2.gif" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Justin Ransom (Justin.Ransom at rubus.com)</td>
<td><img src="images/hughes1.gif" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Justin Ransom (Justin.Ransom at rubus.com)</td>
<td><img src="images/hughes2.gif" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Martin Schlömer (martin.schloemer at phase26.de)</td>
<td><img src="images/schloemer.gif" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Martin Schlömer (martin.schloemer at phase26.de)</td>
<td><img src="images/schloemer2.gif" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Design Services Team at Hewlett Packard (blair_hughes at hp.com></td>
<td><img src="images/blairhughes_ant.jpg"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Design Services Team at Hewlett Packard (blair_hughes at hp.com></td>
<td><img src="images/blairhughes_ant2.jpg"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Design Services Team at Hewlett Packard (blair_hughes at hp.com></td>
<td><img src="images/blairhughes_ant3.jpg"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Design Services Team at Hewlett Packard (blair_hughes at hp.com></td>
<td><img src="images/blairhughes_ant4.jpg"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Design Services Team at Hewlett Packard (blair_hughes at hp.com></td>
<td><img src="images/blairhughes_ant5.jpg"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Design Services Team at Hewlett Packard (blair_hughes at hp.com></td>
<td><img src="images/blairhughes_ant6.jpg"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Design Services Team at Hewlett Packard (blair_hughes at hp.com></td>
<td><img src="images/blairhughes_germ1.jpg"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Design Services Team at Hewlett Packard (blair_hughes at hp.com></td>
<td><img src="images/blairhughes_germ2.jpg"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Design Services Team at Hewlett Packard (blair_hughes at hp.com></td>
<td><img src="images/blairhughes_germ3.jpg"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Design Services Team at Hewlett Packard (blair_hughes at hp.com></td>
<td><img src="images/blairhughes_germ4.jpg"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Design Services Team at Hewlett Packard (blair_hughes at hp.com></td>
<td><img src="images/blairhughes_germ5.jpg"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Design Services Team at Hewlett Packard (blair_hughes at hp.com></td>
<td><img src="images/blairhughes_germ6.jpg"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Design Services Team at Hewlett Packard (blair_hughes at hp.com></td>
<td><img src="images/blairhughes_keis1.jpg"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Design Services Team at Hewlett Packard (blair_hughes at hp.com></td>
<td><img src="images/blairhughes_keis2.jpg"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Design Services Team at Hewlett Packard (blair_hughes at hp.com></td>
<td><img src="images/blairhughes_keis3.jpg"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Design Services Team at Hewlett Packard (blair_hughes at hp.com></td>
<td><img src="images/blairhughes_keis4.jpg"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Design Services Team at Hewlett Packard (blair_hughes at hp.com></td>
<td><img src="images/blairhughes_keis5.jpg"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Alicia Kolesnikova</td>
<td><img src="images/kolesnikova.gif"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
</section>
</body>
</document>

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<document>

<properties>
<author email="conor@apache.org">Conor MacNeill</author>
<title>Having Problems?</title>
</properties>

<body>
<section name="Having Problems?">
<p>If you are having problems with Ant, this page details some steps you can take
to try and resolve the problem. If you can't resolve the problem then this page will help
you collect some of the relevant information to provide a bug report. This information will help
the Ant developers understand and resolve the problem. Of course, not all of the steps here will
make sense for every problem you encounter. These are just some suggestions to
point you in the right direction.
</p>
<subsection name="Read the Manual">
<p>The first step to take when you have a problem is to read the <a href="manual/index.html">
manual</a> entry for the task or concept that is giving you trouble. Check particularly the meaning of
attributes and nested elements. Perhaps an attribute would provide the behavior you require. If you
have problems with the manual, then you can submit a documentation bug report (see below) to help us
improve the Ant documentation.
</p>
</subsection>
<subsection name="Examine Debug Output">
<p>The first step when you have a problem is to see what Ant is doing. Try running Ant with
The verbose flag<br/><br/>
<code>ant -verbose</code><br/><br/>
or<br/><br/>
<code>ant -v</code><br/><br/>
This will produce something which starts like the following:</p>
<source>
Ant version 1.4alpha compiled on August 6 2001
Buildfile: build.xml
Detected Java version: 1.3 in: f:\jdk1.3\jre
Detected OS: Windows NT
parsing buildfile \jakarta-ant\build.xml with
URI = file:/jakarta-ant/build.xml
Project base dir set to: \jakarta-ant
[property] Loading \jakarta-ant\.ant.properties
[property] Unable to find property file: \jakarta-ant\.ant.properties
[property] Loading \conor\.ant.properties
[property] Override ignored for debug

prepare:

check_for_optional_packages:
...
</source>
<p>
You may be able to see in this trace what ant is doing and why it takes a particular
course of action. If you need even more information you can use the <code>-debug</code>
flag rather than <code>-verbose</code>. This will generally produce so much output that
you may want to save the output and analyze it in an editor.
</p>
<p>So, once you have all this debug information, how can you use it to solve your problem.
That will depend on the task in question and the nature of your problem. Each task logs
different aspects of its operation, but it will give you an idea of what is going on. For
example, the &lt;javac&gt; task logs the reasons why it chooses to compile particular
classes and the equivalent command it is using. The following trace (which has been edited
and reformatted for clarity) shows javac adding one class but skipping another. This is followed
by the compiler arguments and a summary of all the classes to be compiled.
</p>
<source>
[javac] org\apache\tools\ant\listener\Log4jListener.java added as
\build\classes\org\apache\tools\ant\listener\Log4jListener.class
is outdated.
[javac] org\apache\tools\ant\Location.java omitted as
\build\classes\org\apache\tools\ant\Location.class is up to date.
...
[javac] Compiling 1 source file to \jakarta-ant\build\classes
[javac] Using modern compiler
[javac] Compilation args: -d \jakarta-ant\build\classes -classpath
\jakarta-ant\build\classes;F:\jdk1.3\lib\tools.jar;
\Ant\lib\optional.jar;\Ant\lib\log4j.jar;
\Ant\lib\junit.jar;\Ant\lib\jaxp.jar;
\Ant\lib\crimson.jar;\Ant\lib\ant.jar
-sourcepath \jakarta-ant\src\main -g:none -O
[javac] File to be compiled:
\src\main\org\apache\tools\ant\listener\Log4jListener.java
</source>

<p>
In many cases Ant tasks are wrappers around OS commands or other java classes. In debug mode, many
of these tasks will print out the equivalent command line, as the &lt;javac&gt; task above does. If
you are having a problem, it is often useful to run the command directly in the same way Ant is doing
and see if the problem persists. The problem may lie in the command being run by Ant, or in the way
the Ant task is running the command. You can also see the effect of changing attribute values on the
generated command line. This can help you to understand whether you are using the correct attributes
and values.
</p>
</subsection>

<subsection name="Has it been fixed?">
<p>
After examining the debug output, you still believe that the problem you are having may be caused by Ant.
Chances are that someone else may have already encountered this problem and perhaps it has been
fixed. The next step, therefore, may be to try a nightly build of Ant to see if the
problem has been fixed. Nightly builds for Ant are available from the
<a href="/builds/jakarta-ant/nightly/">Jakarta web site</a>. While Ant nightly
builds are typically quite stable and are used by <a href="/builds/gump/latest/">
Gump</a> to build many other Jakarta projects, these builds should be treated as experimental. You can
install and verify whether your problem has been fixed. Note that nightly builds do not build many of the
optional tasks the come with Ant. A snapshot of these optional tasks is occasionally uploaded to the nightly
download <a href="/builds/jakarta-ant/nightly/optional/">area</a>. Note that even
this snapshot does not contain every optional task.
</p>
</subsection>
<subsection name="Has it been reported?">
<p>
If the current nightly build doesn't resolve your problem, it is possible that someone else has reported
the issue. It is time to look at the <a href="http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/">Apache Bug Database</a>.
This system is easy to use and it will let you search the currently open and resolved bugs to see if your
problem has already been reported. If it has, you can see whether any of the developers have commented,
suggesting workarounds or the reason for the bug, etc. You may have more information to add (see about
creating bug reports below), in which case, go right ahead and add it. If you can't add more information
you may just want to vote for this bug, and perhaps add yourself to the CC list to follow the progress of
this bug.
</p>
</subsection>
<subsection name="Filing a Bug report">
<p>By this time you may have decided that there is a bug in Ant. You have a few choices at this
point. You can send an email to the ant-user mailing list to see if others have encountered your issue
and how they may have worked around it. If after some discussion, you still feel you have a bug, it
is time to create a bug report. This is a simple operation in the Bug Database. Please try to provide
as much information as possible to assist the developers in resolving the bug. Please try to enter correct
values for the various inputs when creating the bug. Once the bug is created you can add attachments to
the bug report.
</p>
<p>What information should you include in your bug report? The easiest bugs to fix are those which are most
easily reproducible, so if you can, it is really helpful to produce a small test case that exhibits the
problem. In this case, you would attach the build file and other files necessary to reproduce the problem
probably packed together in an archive. If you can't produce a test case, you should try to include a
snippet from your build file and the relevant sections from the debug out from Ant. Try to include the
header information where Ant states the version, the OS and VM information etc. As the debug output is
likely to be very large, you should try to remove the output which is not relevant. Once the bug is
entered into the Bug Database, you will be kept informed about progress on the bug. If you receive email
asking for further information, please try to respond as it will aid in the resolution of your bug.
</p>
</subsection>
<subsection name="Fixing the Bug">
<p>If you aren't satisfied just filing a bug report, you can try to find and fix the problem yourself. The
best way to do that is by working against the latest code from CVS. Alternatively, you can work with the
source code from the source distributions available on the Jakarta website. If you are going to tackle the
issues at this level, you may want to discuss details on the ant-dev mailing list. Once you have a fix
for the problem, you may either submit the patch to the ant-dev mailing list or enter into the Bug
Database as described above, attaching the patch. Using the Bug database has the advantage of tracking
the progress of your bug.
</p>
</subsection>
</section>
</body>
</document>

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<document>

<properties>
<author email="bodewig@apache.org">Stefan Bodewig</author>
<title>Resources</title>
</properties>

<body>
<section name="Articles and Presentations">

<p>This page lists articles and presentations written about Ant. If
you've written something that should be included, please post it to one
of the mailing lists.</p>

</section>

<section name="Articles">

<subsection name="Ant in Anger: Using Ant in a Production Development
System">
<p>This document describes strategies and some basic examples of how to
use Ant in larger team development projects.</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Author:</th>
<td><a href="mailto:steve_l@iseran.com">Steve Loughran</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/~checkout~/jakarta-ant/docs/ant_in_anger.html?content-type=text/html">http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/~checkout~/jakarta-ant/docs/ant_in_anger.html?content-type=text/html</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</subsection>

<subsection name="Ant Task Guidelines">
<p>This document describes how to write custom Ant tasks, and how to submit
them to potentially be included in Ant.</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Author:</th>
<td><a href="mailto:steve_l@iseran.com">Steve Loughran</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/~checkout~/jakarta-ant/docs/ant_task_guidelines.html?content-type=text/html">http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/~checkout~/jakarta-ant/docs/ant_task_guidelines.html?content-type=text/html</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</subsection>

<subsection name="Incremental development with Ant and JUnit">
<p>This article explores the benefits of unit testing with Ant and
JUnit, detailing how to develop automated unit tests and integrate them
into your build process.</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Author:</th>
<td><a href="mailto:malcolm@nuearth.com">Malcolm Davis</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-ant/?dwzone=java">http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-ant/?dwzone=java</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</subsection>

<subsection name="Automate your build process using Java and Ant">
<p>This article provides an introduction to using Ant with some basic
examples and by highlighting some of the important tasks.</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Author:</th>
<td><a href="mailto:michael.cymerman@javaworld.com">Michael Cymerman</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2000/jw-1020-ant.html">http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2000/jw-1020-ant.html</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</subsection>

<subsection name="Short tutorial in Cactus&apos; (formerly J2EEUnit)
documentation">
<p>There is a short tutorial on how to use Ant in Cactus&apos;
documentation. It has a slant towards build files that will be used
with Cactus.</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Author:</th>
<td>Cactus development team</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/cactus/ant.html">http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/cactus/ant.html</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</subsection>

<subsection name="Developing custom Ant tasks with VisualAge for Java">
<p>This article outlines how to integrate Ant into VisualAge for Java,
and how to write and debug custom tasks using the IDE and the
integrated debugger.</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Author:</th>
<td><a href="mailto:glenn@somanetworks.com">Glenn McAllister</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/data/document2366?OpenDocument&amp;p=1&amp;BCT=1&amp;Footer=1">http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/data/document2366?OpenDocument&amp;p=1&amp;BCT=1&amp;Footer=1</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</subsection>

<subsection name="Automated builds with VisualAge for Java and Ant">
<p>This article shows how you can perform command line builds with a
VisualAge for Java repository.</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Author:</th>
<td><a href="mailto:glenn@somanetworks.com">Glenn McAllister</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/Data/Document4366?OpenDocument&amp;p=1&amp;BCT=3&amp;Footer=1">http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/Data/Document4366?OpenDocument&amp;p=1&amp;BCT=3&amp;Footer=1</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</subsection>

<subsection name="Ant: A Build Tool from the Jakarta Project">
<p>This article is from the &quot;Best Practices&quot; section of
Sun&apos;s Dot-Com Builder Site.</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Author:</th>
<td>Laura Geele Wang</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp">http://dcb.sun.com/practices/profiles/ant.jsp</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</subsection>

<subsection name="Making a Mountain Out of an Anthill">
<p>This article is from the June 2001 issue of the Java Developer&apos;
Journal. You need to be a registered JDJ subscriber to view this
article.</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Author:</th>
<td>Neal Ford</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://www.sys-con.com/java/archivesa.cfm?volume=06&amp;issue=06">http://www.sys-con.com/java/archivesa.cfm?volume=06&amp;issue=06</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</subsection>

<subsection name="Using Ant and Weblogic EJBs">
<p>This article describes how to use Ant to create Weblogic EJBs, and
some workarounds for issues you may encounter.</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Author:</th>
<td>Jesse E. Tilly</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/06/25/antejb.html">http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/06/25/antejb.html</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</subsection>

<subsection name="An Introduction to Ant">
<p>This article is a short introduction into the basic
concepts of Ant.</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Author:</th>
<td>Jayakrishnan Nair</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://varnam.org/articles/ant.html">http://varnam.org/articles/ant.html</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</subsection>

</section>

<section name="Presentations">
<subsection name="Ant Build Tool">
<p>A PowerPoint presentation on Ant 1.2. It provides a basic overview
of Ant&apos;s capabilities.</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Author:</th>
<td><a href="mailto:chanezon@netscape.com">Patrick Chanezon</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://people.netscape.com/chanezon/tech/ant/ant_preso.ppt">http://people.netscape.com/chanezon/tech/ant/ant_preso.ppt</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</subsection>

<subsection name="Ant">
<p>A detailed Ant 1.3 PowerPoint presentation, made at the St. Louis Java Users Group
meeting in March 2001. Includes a detailed build file and basic
descriptions of all the built in and optional tasks.</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Author:</th>
<td>Mark Volkmann</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://www.ociweb.com/javasig/knowledgebase/March2001/index.html">http://www.ociweb.com/javasig/knowledgebase/March2001/index.html</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</subsection>

<subsection name="Modern Development Crises">
<p>This presentation is an overview of the current state of software
development today. There are a couple of slides that briefly cover
Ant.</p>

<table>
<tr>
<th>Author:</th>
<td><a href="mailto:steve_l@iseran.com">Steve Loughran</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>URL:</th>
<td><a href="http://www.iseran.com/Steve/modern_development_processes.html">http://www.iseran.com/Steve/modern_development_processes.html</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</subsection>
</section>
</body>
</document>

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<!-- Content Stylesheet for Site -->

## Defined variables
#set ($bodybg = "#ffffff")
#set ($bodyfg = "#000000")
#set ($bodylink = "#525D76")
#set ($bannerbg = "#525D76")
#set ($bannerfg = "#ffffff")
#set ($subbannerbg = "#828DA6")
#set ($subbannerfg = "#ffffff")
#set ($tablethbg = "#039acc")
#set ($tabletdbg = "#a0ddf0")
#set ($pound = "#" )
<!-- start the processing -->
#faqs()
<!-- end the processing -->

## This is where the FAQ specific macro's live

#macro (toc $section)
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="$subbannerbg">
<font color="$subbannerfg" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<strong>$section.getAttributeValue("title")</strong>
</font>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<blockquote>
<ul>
#foreach ($faq in $section.getChildren("faq") )
#subtoc ($faq)
#end
</ul>
</blockquote>
</td></tr>
</table>
#end

#macro (subtoc $faq)
#set ($id = $faq.getAttributeValue("id"))
<li><a href="$pound$id">
$xmlout.outputString($faq.getChild("question"), true)
</a></li>
#end

#macro (answers $section)
#foreach ($faq in $section.getChildren("faq") )
#faq ($faq)
#end
#end

#macro (faq $faq)
#set ($id = $faq.getAttributeValue("id"))
<a name="$id">
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="$subbannerbg">
<font color="$subbannerfg" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<strong>
$xmlout.outputString($faq.getChild("question"), true)
</strong>
</font>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<blockquote>
#foreach ($item in $faq.getChild("answer").getChildren())
#if ($item.getName().equals("img"))
#image ($item)
#elseif ($item.getName().equals("source"))
#source ($item)
#elseif ($item.getName().equals("table"))
#table ($item)
#else
$xmlout.outputString($item)
#end
#end
</blockquote>
</td></tr>
</table>
</a>
#end

#macro (faqs)
#header()
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="$bannerbg">
<font color="$bannerfg" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<strong>Questions</strong>
</font>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<blockquote>
#set ($allFaqSections = $root.getChildren("faqsection"))
#foreach ( $faqSection in $allFaqSections )
#toc ($faqSection)
#end
</blockquote>
</td></tr>
</table>

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="$bannerbg">
<font color="$bannerfg" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<strong>Answers</strong>
</font>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<blockquote>
#foreach ( $faqSection in $allFaqSections )
#answers ($faqSection)
#end
</blockquote>
</td></tr>
</table>
#footer()
#end

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<project name="Jakarta Site"
href="http://jakarta.apache.org/">

<title>The Jakarta Site</title>
<!-- uncomment and put your project logo here!
<logo href="http://jakarta.apache.org/images/jakarta-logo.gif">The Jakarta Project</logo>
-->
<body>
<menu name="Ant">
<item name="Front Page"
href="/index.html"/>
<item name="News"
href="/antnews.html"/>
<item name="Documentation"
href="/manual/"/>
<item name="External Tools and Tasks"
href="/external.html"/>
<item name="Resources"
href="/resources.html"/>
<item name="Ant FAQ"
href="/faq.html"/>
<item name="Having Problems?"
href="/problems.html"/>
</menu>

<menu name="Download">
<item name="Binaries" href="/site/binindex.html"/>
<item name="Source Code" href="/site/sourceindex.html"/>
</menu>

<menu name="Jakarta">
<item name="News &amp; Status" href="/site/news.html"/>
<item name="Mission" href="/site/mission.html"/>
<item name="Guidelines Notes" href="/site/guidelines.html"/>
<item name="FAQs" href="/site/faqs.html"/>
</menu>

<menu name="Get Involved">
<item name="Overview" href="/site/getinvolved.html"/>
<item name="CVS Repositories" href="/site/cvsindex.html"/>
<item name="Mailing Lists" href="/site/mail.html"/>
<item name="Reference Library" href="/site/library.html"/>
<item name="Bug Database" href="http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Ant"/>
<item name="Enhancement Requests" href="http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Ant&amp;bug_severity=Enhancement"/>
</menu>

</body>
</project>

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<!-- Content Stylesheet for Site -->

## Defined variables
#set ($bodybg = "#ffffff")
#set ($bodyfg = "#000000")
#set ($bodylink = "#525D76")
#set ($bannerbg = "#525D76")
#set ($bannerfg = "#ffffff")
#set ($subbannerbg = "#828DA6")
#set ($subbannerfg = "#ffffff")
#set ($tablethbg = "#039acc")
#set ($tabletdbg = "#a0ddf0")
<!-- start the processing -->
#document()
<!-- end the processing -->

## This is where the common page macro's live

#macro ( subsection $subsection)
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="$subbannerbg">
<font color="$subbannerfg" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<a name="$subsection.getAttributeValue("name")"><strong>$subsection.getAttributeValue("name")</strong></a>
</font>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<blockquote>
#foreach ( $items in $subsection.getChildren() )
#if ($items.getName().equals("img"))
#image ($items)
#elseif ($items.getName().equals("source"))
#source ($items)
#elseif ($items.getName().equals("table"))
#table ($items)
#else
$xmlout.outputString($items)
#end
#end
</blockquote>
</td></tr>
</table>
#end

#macro ( section $section)
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="$bannerbg">
<font color="$bannerfg" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<a name="$section.getAttributeValue("name")"><strong>$section.getAttributeValue("name")</strong></a>
</font>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<blockquote>
#foreach ( $items in $section.getChildren() )
#if ($items.getName().equals("img"))
#image ($items)
#elseif ($items.getName().equals("source"))
#source ($items)
#elseif ($items.getName().equals("table"))
#table ($items)
#elseif ($items.getName().equals("subsection"))
#subsection ($items)
#else
$xmlout.outputString($items)
#end
#end
</blockquote>
</td></tr>
</table>
#end

#macro (document)
#header()
#set ($allSections = $root.getChild("body").getChildren("section"))
#foreach ( $section in $allSections )
#section ($section)
#end
#footer()
#end

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## This is where the common macro's live

#macro ( table $table)
<table>
#foreach ( $items in $table.getChildren() )
#if ($items.getName().equals("tr"))
#tr ($items)
#end
#end
</table>
#end

#macro ( tr $tr)
<tr>
#foreach ( $items in $tr.getChildren() )
#if ($items.getName().equals("td"))
#td ($items)
#elseif ($items.getName().equals("th"))
#th ($items)
#end
#end
</tr>
#end

#macro ( td $value)
#if ($value.getAttributeValue("colspan"))
#set ($colspan = $value.getAttributeValue("colspan"))
#end
#if ($value.getAttributeValue("rowspan"))
#set ($rowspan = $value.getAttributeValue("rowspan"))
#end
<td bgcolor="$tabletdbg" colspan="$!colspan" rowspan="$!rowspan"
valign="top" align="left">
<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
#if ($value.getText().length() != 0 || $value.hasChildren())
$xmlout.outputString($value, true)
#else
&nbsp;
#end
</font>
</td>
#end

#macro ( th $value)
#if ($value.getAttributeValue("colspan"))
#set ($colspan = $value.getAttributeValue("colspan"))
#end
#if ($value.getAttributeValue("rowspan"))
#set ($rowspan = $value.getAttributeValue("rowspan"))
#end
<td bgcolor="$tablethbg" colspan="$!colspan" rowspan="$!rowspan"
valign="top" align="left">
<font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
#if ($value.getText().length() != 0 || $value.hasChildren())
$xmlout.outputString($value, true)
#else
&nbsp;
#end
</font>
</td>
#end

#macro ( projectanchor $name $value )
#if ($value.startsWith("http://"))
<a href="$value">$name</a>
#elseif ($value.startsWith("/site"))
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org$value">$name</a>
#else
<a href="$relativePath$value">$name</a>
#end
#end

#macro ( metaauthor $author $email )
<meta name="author" value="$author">
<meta name="email" value="$email">
#end

#macro ( image $value )
#if ($value.getAttributeValue("width"))
#set ($width=$value.getAttributeValue("width"))
#end
#if ($value.getAttributeValue("height"))
#set ($height=$value.getAttributeValue("height"))
#end
#if ($value.getAttributeValue("align"))
#set ($align=$value.getAttributeValue("align"))
#end
<img src="$relativePath$value.getAttributeValue("src")"
width="$!width" height="$!height" align="$!align">
#end

#macro ( source $value)
<div align="left">
<table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
<td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
<td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
<td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>$escape.getText($value.getText())</pre></td>
<td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
<td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
<td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
#end

#macro ( makeProject )
#set ($menus = $project.getChild("body").getChildren("menu"))
#foreach ( $menu in $menus )
<p><strong>$menu.getAttributeValue("name")</strong></p>
<ul>
#foreach ( $item in $menu.getChildren() )
#set ($name = $item.getAttributeValue("name"))
<li>#projectanchor($name $item.getAttributeValue("href"))</li>
#end
</ul>
#end
#end

#macro (getProjectImage)
#if ($project.getChild("logo"))
<td align="left">
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org"><img src="http://jakarta.apache.org/images/jakarta-logo.gif" border="0"/></a>
</td>
<td align="right">
#set ( $logoString = $project.getChild("logo").getAttributeValue("href") )
#if ( $logoString.startsWith("/") )
<a href="$project.getAttributeValue("href")"><img src="$relativePath$logoString" alt="$project.getChild("logo").getText()" border="0"/></a>
#else
<a href="$project.getAttributeValue("href")"><img src="$relativePath/$logoString" alt="$project.getChild("logo").getText()" border="0"/></a>
#end
</td>
#else
<td colspan="2">
<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org"><img src="http://jakarta.apache.org/images/jakarta-logo.gif" align="left" border="0"/></a>
</td>
#end
#end

#macro (header)
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
#set ($authors = $root.getChild("properties").getChildren("author"))
#foreach ( $au in $authors )
#metaauthor ( $au.getText() $au.getAttributeValue("email") )
#end
<title>$project.getChild("title").getText() - $root.getChild("properties").getChild("title").getText()</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="$bodybg" text="$bodyfg" link="$bodylink">
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0">
<!-- TOP IMAGE -->
<tr>
#getProjectImage()
</tr>
</table>
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="4">
<tr><td colspan="2">
<hr noshade="" size="1"/>
</td></tr>
<tr>
<!-- LEFT SIDE NAVIGATION -->
<td valign="top" nowrap="true">
#makeProject()
</td>
<td align="left" valign="top">
#end

#macro (footer)
</td>
</tr>

<!-- FOOTER -->
<tr><td colspan="2">
<hr noshade="" size="1"/>
</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">
<div align="center"><font color="$bodylink" size="-1"><em>
Copyright &#169; 1999-2001, Apache Software Foundation
</em></font></div>
</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
#end

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velocimacro.library=templates.vm

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