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Why? </a></li> </ul> </blockquote> </td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <strong>Ant and IDEs/Editors</strong> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <ul> <li><a href="#integration"> Is Ant supported by my IDE/Editor? </a></li> <li><a href="#emacs-mode"> Why doesn't (X)Emacs parse the error messages generated by Ant correctly? </a></li> </ul> </blockquote> </td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <strong>Advanced issues</strong> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <ul> <li><a href="#xml-entity-include"> How do I include an XML snippet in my build file? </a></li> <li><a href="#mail-logger"> How do I send an email with the result of my build process? </a></li> </ul> </blockquote> </td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <strong>Known problems</strong> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <ul> <li><a href="#remove-cr"> <chmod> or <exec> don't work in Ant 1.3 on Unix </a></li> </ul> </blockquote> </td></tr> </table> </blockquote> </td></tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <strong>Answers</strong> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <a name="what-is-ant"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <strong> What is Ant? </strong> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p> Ant is a Java based build tool. In theory it is kind of like "make" without makes wrinkles and with the full portability of pure Java code.</p> </blockquote> </td></tr> </table> </a> <a name="ant-name"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <strong> Why do you call it Ant? </strong> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>According to Ant's original author James Duncan Davidson, the name is an acronym for "Another Neat Tool".</p> <p>Later explanations go along the lines of "Ants are doing an extremely good job at building things" or "Ants are very small and can carry a weight a dozen times of their own" - describing what Ant is intended to be.</p> </blockquote> </td></tr> </table> </a> <a name="history"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <strong> Tell us a little bit about Ant's history. </strong> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <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'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> <td bgcolor="#039acc" colspan="" rowspan="" valign="top" align="left"> <font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> Ant Version </font> </td> <td bgcolor="#039acc" colspan="" rowspan="" valign="top" align="left"> <font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> Release Date </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#a0ddf0" colspan="" rowspan="" valign="top" align="left"> <font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> 1.1 </font> </td> <td bgcolor="#a0ddf0" colspan="" rowspan="" valign="top" align="left"> <font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> 19 July 2000 </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#a0ddf0" colspan="" rowspan="" valign="top" align="left"> <font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> 1.2 </font> </td> <td bgcolor="#a0ddf0" colspan="" rowspan="" valign="top" align="left"> <font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> 24 October 2000 </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#a0ddf0" colspan="" rowspan="" valign="top" align="left"> <font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> 1.3 </font> </td> <td bgcolor="#a0ddf0" colspan="" rowspan="" valign="top" align="left"> <font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> 3 March 2001 </font> </td> </tr> </table> </blockquote> </td></tr> </table> </a> <a name="no-gnu-tar"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <strong> I get checksum errors when I try to extract the <code>tar.gz</code> distribution file. Why? </strong> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>Ant'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's <tar> 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> </blockquote> </td></tr> </table> </a> <a name="integration"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <strong> Is Ant supported by my IDE/Editor? </strong> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>See the <a href="external.html#IDE%47Editor+Integration">section on IDE integration</a> on our external tools page.</p> </blockquote> </td></tr> </table> </a> <a name="emacs-mode"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <strong> Why doesn't (X)Emacs parse the error messages generated by Ant correctly? </strong> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>Ant adds a "banner" with the name of the current task in front of all messages - and there are no built-in regular expressions in Emacs 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's output.</p> <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> (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)) </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> </blockquote> </td></tr> </table> </a> <a name="xml-entity-include"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <strong> How do I include an XML snippet in my build file? </strong> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>You can use XML's way of including external files and let the parser do the job for Ant:</p> <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> <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE project [ <!ENTITY common SYSTEM "file:./common.xml"> ]> <project name="test" default="test" basedir="."> <target name="setup"> ... </target> &common; ... </project> </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> <p>will literally include the contents of <code>common.xml</code> where you've placed the <code>&common;</code> entity.</p> <p>In combination with a DTD, this would look like this:</p> <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> <!DOCTYPE project PUBLIC "-//ANT//DTD project//EN" "file:./ant.dtd" [ <!ENTITY include SYSTEM "file:./header.xml"> ]> </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> </blockquote> </td></tr> </table> </a> <a name="mail-logger"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <strong> How do I send an email with the result of my build process? </strong> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <p>You can use a custom BuildListener, that sends out an email in the buildFinished() method. Will Glozer <will.glozer@jda.com> has written such a listener based on JavaMail, the source is</p> <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> 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) { } } </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> <p>With a <code>monitor.properties</code> like this</p> <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> # 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! </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> <p><code>monitor.properties</code> should be placed right next to your compiled <code>BuildMonitor.class</code>. To use it, invoke Ant like</p> <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> ant -listener BuildMonitor </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> </blockquote> </td></tr> </table> </a> <a name="remove-cr"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"> <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"> <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <strong> <chmod> or <exec> don't work in Ant 1.3 on Unix </strong> </font> </td></tr> <tr><td> <blockquote> <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's <fixcrlf> task or something like:</p> <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> tr -d '\r' < $ANT_HOME/bin/antRun > /tmp/foo mv /tmp/foo $ANT_HOME/bin/antRun </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> </blockquote> </td></tr> </table> </a> </blockquote> </td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> <!-- FOOTER --> <tr><td colspan="2"> <hr noshade="" size="1"/> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> <div align="center"><font color="#525D76" size="-1"><em> Copyright © 1999-2001, Apache Software Foundation </em></font></div> </td></tr> </table> </body> </html> <!-- end the processing -->