Quick facts on Ant & Using it to Build Projects In Eclipse

Short tutorial (from onjava.com, sample chapter): attached.

Sample project: in CVS under projetseg/samples/building/DummyProject

You can generate a basic build script by right-clicking on plugin.xml and selecting PDE Tools > Generate Ant Build File. There are catches to this approach, which I'll cover next meeting.

We can have our update packages built with Ant easily too. That means usecasemaps.org can become an Eclipse update site at some point in the future and users just have to click Help > Software Updates to get the latest version of jUCMNav.

-- Main.JeanPhilippeDaigle - 18 Jan 2005

• Might have to change a few things when using CVSNT.:

  img/cvsnt_problem.jpg

• The ant script given requires bin to be created (not a major problem)

-- Main.JasonKealey - 19 Jan 2005