I've just started with Ant this afternoon and found the documentation
very food.
I've been trying to do a simple build with my goal to generate a file
including the time stamp which I can read in my applet to display on an
about screen. Here's my build.xml :
<project name="MyProject">
<description>
MyProject build file
</description>
<property name="src" location="src"/>
<property name="build" location="classes"/>
<property name="dist" location="classes"/>
<target name="init">
<!-- Create the time stamp; figure out how to write this to a file
-->
<tstamp>
<format property="Now" pattern="d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss"/>
</tstamp>
</target>
<target name="compile" depends="init"
description="compile the source " >
<javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${build}"/>
</target>
<target name="dist" depends="compile"
description="generate the distribution" >
<jar jarfile="${dist}/MyProject.jar" basedir="${build}"/>
</target>
</project>
Doing an "ant" sats build successful but nothing appears to have been
done. There are no .java or a .jar built. Here's the output from an "ant
- debug" :
Apache Ant version 1.6.5 compiled on June 2 2005
Buildfile: build.xml
Adding reference: ant.PropertyHelper
Detected Java version: 1.5 in: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_05\jre
Detected OS: Windows XP
Adding reference: ant.ComponentHelper
Setting ro project property: ant.version -> Apache Ant version 1.6.5
compiled on June 2 2005
Setting ro project property: ant.file ->
C:\MyCompany\MyVersion\MyProduct\JavaApplet\build.xml
Adding reference: ant.projectHelper
Adding reference: ant.parsing.context
Adding reference: ant.targets
parsing buildfile C:\MyCompany\MyVersion\MyProduct\JavaApplet\build.xml
with URI = file:///C:/MyCompany/MyVersion/MyProduct/JavaApplet/build.xml
Setting ro project property: ant.project.name -> MyProject
Adding reference: MyProject
Setting ro project property: ant.file.MyProject ->
C:\MyCompany\MyVersion\MyProduct\JavaApplet\build.xml
Project base dir set to: C:\MyCompany\MyVersion\MyProduct\JavaApplet
+Target:
+Target: init
+Target: compile
+Target: dist
Setting project property: src ->
C:\MyCompany\MyVersion\MyProduct\JavaApplet\src
Setting project property: build ->
C:\MyCompany\MyVersion\MyProduct\JavaApplet\classes
Setting project property: dist ->
C:\MyCompany\MyVersion\MyProduct\JavaApplet\classes
Attempting to create object of type
org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor
Adding reference: ant.executor
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 0 seconds
Any comments are appreciated.
Thanks a lot,
Tom.
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