Matt Harrah wrote:
You need to go to the library dependencies section of the ant manual, and download the dependencies. Then copy the corresponding jars to the lib/optional directory of your ant development directory.Sorry if this is a duplicate....
Isn't there a FAQ for getting started contributing to Ant? The only thing I've seen is how to get the source from CVS (which I've done), but I'm feeling a little stupid here.
For example: 1) When I do a build of Ant from the source, I get a load of Manifest only jars. Is this normal?
2) When I create a java project using Eclipse and point to the Ant source, most of it won't compile because of missing classes. Am I supposed to gather all the third-party jars that Ant supports and add them to the classpath? Doesn't seem practical what with needing to pay for WebSphere, WebLogic, etc.See above. If you do not want to download all the dependencies, you will need to weed out the various classes which rely on Weblogic, .... From the build.xml of ant, you can find out where they are located.
By the way Weblogic can be downloaded for free (if you have the bandwidth).
3) Are there special coding conventions to follow that are specific to the Ant project?
There are coding conventions, but there are not very special. see this document : http://ant.apache.org/ant_task_guidelines.html
Another tip :
the way to make a complete build and test from the command line is :
(in Unix linguo - adjust for Win if you are under DOS)
I use - one development dir - one runtime dir (ANT_HOME points to this one)
in the development dir rm -rf bootstrap; ./build.sh -D"test.haltonfailure"=no install-lite test
bootstrap is a directory which gets created when you build ant from the command line.
you should get rid of it to get a completely clean build.
Cheers,
Antoine
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