Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. It can be used to automate tasks.
Download the Ant distribution from the internet (http://ant.apache.org).
Unzip the file to c:\software
Add c:\software\jakarta-ant-1.5\bin
to the path.
Add a new enviroment variable, JAVA_HOME
pointing to your
installation of the Java Development Kit, e.g. c:\program files\java\jdk1.5.0_05
.
The BMFO distribution contains 3 ANT build files:
build.xml - used to build the sourcecode
distribution
|
doc/build.xml - used to build the
documentation from the DocBook sources
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script/test/build.xml - used to run
the Canoo webtest
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servlet/build.xml - used to build the
bmfo_reports.war web application archive
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