I have heard that a project that developed with building tool are mostly dependency error free. It contains all type of project information. What is architecture of any building tool? How does it be helpful to any project developement and developer? I have heard Maven and ANT. Are there any other more useful ? Which is more useful and ...
Hi guys, I just wanted to ask a simple question. I am trying to work out the pros and cons of setting up Flash Builder 4, for Flex development, as an ant-build vs compiling via the IDE. I particularly want to ensure i can do the following: - Debug and Trace via IDE - Unit Testing via IDE Is this possible through command-line buildi...
I'm recently assigned a task to make ant be able to build war packages for different environments. And I'm almost done. Except one feature. The ant accepts an env parameter by like -Denv=DEV, and use different configuration files to make the war package. But the default target is start which will build, deploy and start the tomcat. I ...
I am trying to import an existing java web projects (built using ant build.xml) into Eclipse, using the Import functionality, but Eclipse does not recognize it as a project. How can I import the projects into eclipse? --- Edit --- What I did was to import the project as Java project. Yes there is an option in Eclipse 3.5 to import ant...
Hallo, I cannot compile my project using an ant build script. The error message: Ant cannot find symbol... I read about creating build.xml, but it seems it is not enough. My project directory has the following layout: poject src gen ... libarie_with_needed_java.file src clients helper How do I work with external refere...
Hi, one in a while eclipse refuses to open antfiles. The error log tells me that an "AntSecurityException" is the cause. The javadoc for org.eclipse.ant.core.AntSecurityException tells me that the exception is thrown when an ant task wants to stop the jvm. But just opening an ant build should not start any targets or tasks. The only sol...
How do I do this within my build file? Say I just want to <echo/> the name? ...
I'd like to use a custom PMD ruleset file for my build. Basically, I want to use many of the built-in ruleset packages with some rules turned off. For example, suppose I only wanted the strings and basics rules, I have this ruleset file, called ruleset.xml: <?xml version="1.0"?> <ruleset name="Custom ruleset" xmlns="http://pm...
Ant finishes by printing: BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: x minute y seconds Is there an easy way to customize that text? Sometimes I'm not using Ant to build, but for other batch processes, and I'd like to avoid seeing BUILD SUCCESSFUL when no build was attempted. ...
Hi I have the following ant configuration for remote deployment to weblogic. <target name="deploy"> <wldeploy name="${ant.project.name}.ear" user="${wls.username}" password="${wls.password}" adminurl="t3://${wls.hostname}:${wls.port}" action="deploy" source="myApp.ear" targets="${wls.server.name}" stage="true" verbose="true" uploa...
I am using ant externally, i.e. I construct org.apache.tools.ant.Project dynamically in my program: setup its Tasks, Targets etc., then I want to create build.xml file. How is possible? How possible export this project into ordinal ant build.xml? ...
Getting a syntax error at line: `List<Class> findClasses(File directory)` throws `ClassNotFoundException`... Not able to figure out why. Here is my code. import org.apache.tools.ant.Task; import java.util.*; import java.io.*; public class CreateTestPackage extends Task { String allTestsFile = getProject().getProperty("alltestfile...
I'm trying to set up my ant build so that the targets which run Ivy functions are completely separated from the ones that the continuous build and most developers run. I want one target to download updated dependencies, which I'll check in. Other targets will set up their classpath by including *.jar from the relevant directory. I hav...
Is there a way to delete duplicate files using ant? Specifically, if I have the same file name in two different output directories, I want to delete it from the second directory. ...
When I run or in a tag ant multiplexes the logs mixing the output of each task together. I'd like something more easily read/grokked. I have tried the following approaches and they are better than nothing, but still not what I'm looking for. The following echos the non-interleaved log output at the end of the log, but it also ha...
I'm trying to execute iisvdir from an ant script to clean and create a virtual directory before I compile my .net app in Visual Studio. I am running into a couple of strange errors one one build server, but another is running the script without any problem. <exec dir="${SYSTEM32}" executable="cscript" failonerror="true"> <a...
Hi , iam facing problem in creating the .apk file using the ant script . The generated .apk named as _unaligned.apk instead of .apk and on installing the _unaligned.apk file to the device i get force-close showing the java.lang.VerifyError exaception , but the same apk generated using IDE works fine . i am struck on this for a long tim...
I have here a Windows distribution server that runs an ANT task to build enterprise software. What I need to do is to have the ANT task copy and run a VM image (Linux), and then...talk to that Linux VM through the host operating system (through the ant task itself). We need to be able to send files and/or commands to it. Is there a prac...
Is there a way to check the classpath for a jar before executing a taskdef for example, i want to surround the following with a condition that checks if a jar that can has the class org.hibernate.tool.ant.HibernateToolTask before executing the taskdef <taskdef name="hibernatetool" classname="org.hibernate.tool.ant.HibernateToolTask" c...
Hello, I'm working on a Blackberry application (JDE 4.6.1) on a Windows system. I need to convert a .jar file in a .cod file using bb-ant-tools. Does anybody know how to do it? I'm using: <target name="convert"> <rapc import="source.jar" destdir="${path}\bin\" output="source" jdehome="${testing.jde}" generatesourcelist="true">...